Ab Snopes

Ab Snopes is the founding father of the Snopes family, the prolific clan that appears in many of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fictions. In The Unvanquished he is left on the Sartoris plantation during the war, Bayard writes, because "Father told Ab to kind of look out for Granny while he was away" - but then Bayard adds: "he told me and Ringo to look out for Ab too" (120). Ab is Granny's ally in the scheme to defraud the Yankee army, but becomes Bayard and Ringo's enemy after indirectly causing her death at Grumby's hands. He joins Grumby's gang, though they deliver him to Bayard, Ringo and Buck McCaslin in an attempt to head off their pursuit. The gang's obvious contempt for him is shared by the narrative.