Submitted by lorie.watkins@g... on Sun, 2015-03-22 15:08
Harker is the night engineer of the municipal power plant in Jefferson in "Centaur in Brass." He is one of the "four people" who know that the town's water tower is Flem Snopes' "monument to himself" (149), and serves the story as one of its two narrative voices: the frame narrative, told by a voice that refers to himself as "we," uses Harker's first-person singular account, told inside quotation marks, to tell much of what happens. Harker himself seems to have learned much of what he knows from Turl, one of the "two Negroes" who know the whole story (149).
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Sun, 2015-03-22 14:42
Back in Alabama Rosa Millard and her group run into a Union cavalry unit led by a lieutenant who, Bayard says, "didn't look much older than Ringo and me," sounds "like a girl" when he swears, and looks as if he's "fixing to cry" when forced to turn over his troop's horses to her (56).
Submitted by scott.t.chancel... on Sun, 2015-03-22 14:21
The Union forces who appear in the story - identified as the "-th Army Corps, Department of Tennessee" - are under the command of a General who does not appear (54). His signature is on the requisition form that results in Rosa Millard going back to Mississippi with a lot more silver, mules and Negroes than she expected. Historically, as Faulkner might have expected his readers to know, the Army of Tennessee was commanded first by Ulysses S. Grant and then (after the fall of Vicksburg) by William T. Sherman.
