Sartoris
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Sartoris
Sort Name:
Sartoris
AKA:
Bayard Sartoris
Young Bayard Sartoris
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Secondary
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Sartoris
Family (new):
Occupation:
Armed Forces
Specific Job:
Allied Aviator
First Mentioned:
Origin:
The South
Biography:
The American southerner named simply "Sartoris" in "Ad Astra" is Bayard Sartoris, one of the major characters in Faulkner's first Yoknapatawpha novel, Flags in the Dust (1929); there his inability to get over the death of his twin brother, described briefly in this story, symbolizes his membership in a lost generation. Like the other central characters in the story, Sartoris is a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps. He "never did talk much; just did his patrols and maybe once a week he'd sit and drink his nostrils white in a quiet sort of way" (414). After he avenges his twin brother's death in air combat, he seems more concerned with drinking than with speaking or fighting.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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