This icon represents the "collateral descending nephews and cousins" of the twenty-year-old man killed in the past by Colonel John Sartoris (73). According to Lucius Priest, to these people Sartoris is a "murderer" (73).
The "twenty-year-old Yoknapatawpha County youth" who was killed by Colonel John Sartoris cannot be specifically identified (73). In other Yoknapatawpha fictions Sartoris kills a number of different men. If Faulkner is thinking of one of them here, it is most likely the man Sartoris shot as a robber in both Flags in the Dust (1929) and "An Odor of Verbena," the last story in The Unvanquished (1938).
Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Thu, 2016-01-14 15:14
Sometimes-Wakeup is one of Doom's two uncles, the brother of the Man prior to Doom, and he lives "by himself in a cabin by the creek" (349). He is apparently a recluse, whom the People only see when they take him food. After Doom murders the Man and the Man's son, Sometimes-Wakeup is next in the order of succession, though he declines to accept the position.
