Sartoris (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
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: Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Young Bayard Sartoris, Aunt Jenny Depre, Old Bayard Sartoris, Narcissa Benbow, Horace Benbow, Simon Strother, Byron Snopes
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: Virginia
The Story:
Shortly after the conclusion of World War I, Will Falls, an ancient veteran of the Civil War, came to visit old Bayard Sartoris in his Jefferson, Mississippi, bank, bringing a pipe that had belonged to John Sartoris, Bayard’s father and a colonel in the Confederacy. John’s heroic ghost seemed to fill the room as they reminisced.
The bank day over, Simon Strother, a Sartoris family servant, came to drive old Bayard home in the family carriage and reported that Bayard’s grandson, also named Bayard, was seen arriving on a train that afternoon. Young Bayard...
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