Sartoris (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1929
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Immediately following World War I
- Setting: Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: Virginia
Characters Discussed
Colonel John Sartoris, a Civil War hero, an entrepreneur, and progenitor of the Sartoris family. Colonel Sartoris led a Confederate regiment during the Civil War and returned from the war to found a railroad and become a community leader in Jefferson. He shot and killed two carpetbaggers who were enrolling African Americans to vote, and he was shot and killed in 1876. To his descendants, he represents a code of honor that has become unfashionable in the twentieth century. At the time of the action of the novel, he has been dead for many years, but he...
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William Faulkner (Cyclopedia of World Authors)William Faulkner (Short Fiction)William Faulkner (Dictionary of World Biography)William Faulkner (Censorship)William Faulkner (Long Fiction)William Faulkner (Identities and Issues)William Faulkner (Mystery and Detective Fiction)
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