Colonel Sartoris
Text:
Character Key:
Display Name:
Colonel Sartoris
Sort Name:
Sartoris, Colonel
AKA:
"Colonel" Sartoris
(Old) Bayard Sartoris
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Dies
Family:
Sartoris
Family (new):
Occupation:
Management
Specific Job:
Mayor
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Monday, January 1, 1849 to Monday, December 31, 1849
Cause of Death:
Old Age
Real?:
No
Other Texts:
Biography:
The "Colonel Sartoris" in this story, the mayor of Jefferson who tells Miss Emily that she does not have to pay local taxes, is the son of the "Colonel Sartoris" who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. He is better known as Bayard Sartoris, the (Old) Bayard of Faulkner's first Yoknapatawpha fiction, Flags in the Dust (1929), and one of the most frequently recurring characters in all the fictions. Although it isn't evident in the story, his title of "Colonel" is entirely honorific - he himself never fought in any wars, but is called "Colonel" in this and many other texts in his father's honor. The story he invents to disguise his act of charity to Emily identifies him as a gentleman of the old school.
Property Status:
owns land
owns house
owns business
Financial Status:
controls substantial wealth
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
digyok:node/character/1632