Unnamed Grandfather of Mrs. Harriss

This character 'appears' in the novella by way of one of Faulkner's typical negative formulations, at the end of a sentence that develops the idea that Sebastian Gualdres is "stranger" in Yoknapatawpha: accordingly, when locals visit him at the Backus-Harriss Plantation, they are "guests not of the woman who owned the place and whose family name they had known all her life and her father's and grandfather's too" - that is, they are his guests (174). But the point here is that this woman - Mrs. Harriss - had a grandfather who also lived in Yoknapatawpha, although that is all we know about him.