Bayard Sartoris

Bayard Sartoris is the adolescent narrator of "Skirmish," though he is telling the story some years later. Although he is the narrator, it is not clear how well he understands either the sexual concerns of the white ladies in the story, or the racial anxieties of the white men. Bayard is a frequent character in other Faulkner texts, including the five other stories he narrates, which were revised to form the novel The Unvanquished. As an old man, he is a major character in Flags in the Dust, and appears or is mentioned in many other stories.