Suratt, Family of V.K.

Character Key Number: 
3397
Display Name: 
Suratt, Family of V.K.
Sort Name: 
Suratt, Family of V.K.
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In the story V.K. Suratt tells in Flags in the Dust about Doctor Peabody amputating his grandfather's leg, he mentions that the whiskey and (presumably) the pain caused "granpappy" to "cuss and sing so scandalous" that "the women-folks and the chillen went down to the pasture behind the barn" until the operation was over (136). (Suratt himself appears frequently in the fictions, in the later ones as V.K. Ratliff. His character remains essentially the same, but in those later fictions the Ratliff family is different from this Suratt one.)