Mrs. Bayard Sartoris
Character Key Number:
21
Display Name:
Mrs. Bayard Sartoris
Sort Name:
Sartoris, Mrs. Bayard
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
Old Bayard's wife, the grandmother of Young Bayard and Young John Sartoris, is never named, and mentioned only in passing in Flags in the Dust, when that novel sums up the history of the parlor in the Sartoris mansion over the decades. We're told that she and her daughter-in-law and Miss Jenny clean the room "thoroughly" twice a year. There are exactly two words devoted to her: "his wife" (55).