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Various "Sartorises" appear in many of Faulkner's fictions. In the "Appendix" they appear in a phrase - "the Compsons and Sartorises and their ilk" - describing how the "Snopeses" "took over the little town [of Jefferson] following the turn of the century" (338). The Sartorises represent the old plantation aristocracy that founded Yoknapatawpha, just as the Snopeses represent the class of parvenus who rise to positions of status in a newer South by largely unscrupulous means.

The owner of the boardinghouse that used to be the Compson family home is a "countryman," which in this context refers to a rural person, as opposed to someone who lives in town (331).

The man with whom Caddy's daughter Quentin runs off is briefly described as a "pitchman in a travelling streetshow" (330). (When this nameless man appears in The Sound and the Fury, he is identified in both Benjy's and Jason's sections by his red tie.) The "Appendix" account of him adds that when he left with Quentin, he "was already under sentence for bigamy" (342).

These unnamed boarders - "juries and horse- and muletraders" - live in the Compson house after it has been vacated by the Compsons (331) .

The unnamed father of Caddy Compson's child is referred to in the "Appendix" only as "another man" (332). She is "two months pregnant" with his child when she marries her first husband. This 'other man' may be Dalton Ames, who is not mentioned in the "Appendix" but is Caddy's first sexual partner in The Sound and the Fury (1929). However, when in that novel Caddy's brother Quentin asks her in the context of her forthcoming marriage how many sexual partners she has had, she replies "I dont know too many" (115).