John Sartoris

Text:

"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"

Character Key:

John Sartoris I

Display Name:

John Sartoris

Sort Name:

Sartoris, John

Parent:

Colonel John Sartoris' Mother

AKA:

Colonel Sartoris

Race:

White

Gender:

Male

Class:

Upper Class

Rank:

Secondary

Vitality:

Alive

Family:

Sartoris

Family (new):

SartorissInMGM

Occupation:

Armed Forces

Specific Job:

Confederate Officer

First Mentioned:

Virginia in Civil War in "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (Location)

Home:

Sartoris Plantation in "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (Location)

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Biography:

John Sartoris is a major figure - perhaps the major figure - in Yoknapatawpha history and the Yoknapatawpha fictions as a group. Much in his biography derives from the life of William Falkner, the author's great-grandfather - including the details mentioned in the first paragraph of this story, that after he was "voted out of the colonelcy" of the Confederate regiment he raised, he returned to Mississippi and "organized [a] troop" of irregulars (667). He plays a minor role in "My Grandmother Millard," but helps establish the tone by "laughing" at Granny's efforts to save the family treasure (667), and offers a kind of moral when, "after it was all over," he tells Bayard that people fighting with a "will for freedom . . . could not be defeated" (672). The Civil War was being fought to gain freedom for the slaves, but here Sartoris seems to be thinking of the white Southerners.

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