Narcissa Benbow Sartoris
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Display Name:
Narcissa Benbow Sartoris
Sort Name:
Sartoris, Narcissa Benbow
AKA:
Narcissa Sartoris
Race:
White
Gender:
Female
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Benbow
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Biography:
As a Benbow by birth, Narcissa is a member of one of the county's oldest families. According to Charles Mallison's narrative, she was "picked out" by the aunt of young Bayard Sartoris to be his wife (210). After their marriage, "he got Narcissa pregnant" (210). Their strained relationship is developed at length in Faulkner's first Yoknapatawpha fiction, Flags in the Dust (1929).
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CUT: They married and second wife of (Young) Bayard Sartoris, whom she married in 1919 and with whom her relationship is always strained. (does this text mention first wife? or strained relationship?.
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Individual
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