Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2017-06-18 23:11
John Sartoris is a major figure - perhaps the major figure - in Yoknapatawpha history and the Yoknapatawpha fictions as a group. Much in his biography derives from the life of William Falkner, the author's great-grandfather - including the details mentioned in the first paragraph of this story, that after he was "voted out of the colonelcy" of the Confederate regiment he raised, he returned to Mississippi and "organized [a] troop" of irregulars (667).
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2017-06-18 23:06
This icon represents the soldiers in Colonel Sartoris' "regiment in Virginia," who vote him out of command during the second year of the Civil War (667).
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2017-06-18 23:04
The young woman whom Bayard calls "Cousin Melisandre" is a upper class refugee: she leaves Memphis after it is captured by the Union forces to spend the War at the Sartoris plantation in northeast Mississippi. She seems related to Bayard on his mother's (Millard) side, but the only information the story provides about her family is General Forrest's reference to "that uncle or whoever it is that calls himself her guardian" (694).
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2017-06-18 23:02
This icon represents the "six men in blue" who charge on horseback onto the Sartoris property (676). They are presumably part of the "regiment of Yankee cavalry" camped nearby, but these men are armed with a battering ram because their mission is pillage rather than combat (674). Bayard describes their "faces" as "unshaven and wan" and their demeanor as "frantically gleeful"; their slovenliness suggests a lower class background and their glee an undisciplined lust for plunder (676).
Submitted by dorette.sobolew... on Sun, 2017-06-18 23:00
Rosa is the mother-in-law of John Sartoris; while he is away fighting the Yankees, she manages the plantation, which she doesn't hesitate to call "my house" (696). The story shows her command of traditionally feminine roles - sewing, cooking, gardening - but she proves equally up to the new challenges brought home by the war. She knows how to protect the Sartoris family wealth, including how to keep a slave who dreams about freedom in his place; she also shows General Forrest how to maintain command of his troops.
"The pasture" beside Willy's house where Willy and the boys go the afternoon he returns from his first rehab in Memphis seems to be part of the property he inherited from his father (235). It's unlikely that Willy has any livestock to pasture there.
"The pasture" beside Willy Christian's house where Willy and the boys go the afternoon he returns from his first rehab in Memphis seems to be part of the property he inherited from his father ("Uncle Willy," 235). It's unlikely that Willy has any livestock to pasture there.
In the later novels The Town and The Mansion Faulkner calls Jefferson's main or only drugstore 'Christian's,' but in the short story "Uncle Willy," where both Willy Christian and his drugstore make their earliest appearance in the fictions, Christian's cannot be the only pharmacy in town, since "nobody let [Willy] fill a prescription" (226), his customers do not include the more affluent "town trade" (233), and the store is closed and locked for several long periods of time.
