The Unvanquished (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Faulkner
- First Published: 1938
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: Mid-1860’s
- Setting: Mississippi and Alabama
- Principal Characters: John Sartoris, Rosa Millard (Granny), Bayard Sartoris, Ringo, Drusilla Hawk, Ab Snopes
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Family or family life, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Nineteenth century, Slavery or slaves, Civil War, Revenge, Reconstruction, Theft
- Locales: Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)
The Story:
In the midst of the Civil War, Colonel Sartoris came home for a day to warn his family that the Yankee soldiers were close and to help build a stock pen to hide his animals from the Yankees. A few days later, Bayard and Ringo, twelve-year-olds, shot at a Yankee soldier who rode onto Sartoris land. They hid under Granny’s skirts while soldiers searched the property for them. Granny denied that any children lived on the property, and a colonel ordered the rest of the men off the land while eyeing Granny’s skirts. A family man himself, he left after telling Granny...
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