Bayard Sartoris
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Bayard Sartoris
Sort Name:
Sartoris, Bayard
Parent:
AKA:
Old Bayard
"Colonel" Sartoris
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Sartoris
Family (new):
First Mentioned:
Date of Birth:
Saturday, September 1, 1849 to Sunday, September 30, 1849
Narrator:
First Person
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Biography:
Bayard Sartoris is the adolescent narrator of "Raid" and the other stories in Faulkner's The Unvanquished series. At least a year older than in the first of those stories, he is still young and impressionable: he obediently follows his Granny's commands as they pursue the Yankees and the family silver, and he is a bit awestruck by his cousin Drusilla. His innocence serves to register the chaotic and violent reality of the war, and it seems safe to say that he returns from the "raid" having taken another step on the journey toward maturity that the series recounts. As "(Old) Bayard" he is a major character in Flags in the Dust, and appears in sixteen texts altogether.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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