Ab Snopes

Ab (Abner) Snopes is the founding father of the Snopes family, the prolific clan that appears in many of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha fictions. Neither Granny (in person) nor Bayard (in his narration) treat him with any respect. Bayard's description of "the stubbly dirt-colored fuzz on his face" indicates Ab's lowest (white) class status (684). Even though he's bringing Granny an urgent warning, he goes around to the back of the Sartoris mansion because he knows "he better not come to Granny's front door" (674). In this story he calls himself the "horse-captain" for Colonel Sartoris' troop of Confederate irregulars (673), which is Ab's way of saying he steals horses whenever he can and sometimes provides them to Sartoris' troop.