Barton Kohl
Character Key Number:
282
Display Name:
Barton Kohl
Sort Name:
Kohl, Barton
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
According to Ratliff, the Greenwich Village sculptor who marries Linda Snopes is "not big, he jest looked big, like a football player" (190), and his "pale eyes" looked at you "missing nothing" (191). Several characters in The Mansion make it a point to mention that he is Jewish. Like so many of the southern men in the other fictions, however, Barton Kohl goes off to fight in a civil war - the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. He is killed there while serving with the Loyalists.