V.K. Suratt

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Display Name: 
V.K. Suratt
Sort Name: 
Suratt, V.K.
AKA: 
V.K. Ratliff
Vladimir Kyrilytch Ratliff
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Male
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Sales and Service
Specific Job: 
Sewing Machine Salesman
Biography: 

Known as “V.K. Suratt,” or simply “Suratt,” in some of Faulkner’s early fiction, and as "V.K. Ratliff" in the Snopes trilogy, this character plays only a small role in "Centaur in Brass." A traveling sewing-machine salesman, he is the only person in town who has had firsthand financial experience with Flem Snopes. Suratt is a shrewd businessman; but he openly admits that Flem "outsmarted" him in their deal, and he now speaks of Flem "in a tone of savage and sardonic and ungrudging admiration" (150) while sounding the warning as to the kind of danger Flem can pose.

Individual or Group: 
Individual
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