Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Sun, 2012-04-29 17:46
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.
Referred to only as "the placid, gaily turbaned mountain who superintended his hours," she is the mammy who takes care of Narcissa and Bayard's new-born son (395).
