John Sartoris
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Character Key:
Display Name:
John Sartoris
Sort Name:
Sartoris, John
AKA:
Colonel Sartoris
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Peripheral
Vitality:
Dead
Family:
Sartoris
Family (new):
Occupation:
Management
Specific Job:
Planter
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
Colonel John Sartoris is one of the major figures in the Yoknapatawpha fictions. The brief mention of him in The Reivers gives a good idea of his almost mythic stature as a founding father: "the actual colonel, C.S.A. - soldier, statesman, politician, duelist . . . murderer" (72-73). Lucius' narrative also mentions the railroad he "built . . . in the mid-seventies," which still runs through the center of Yoknapatawpha (73).
Property Status:
owns business
Financial Status:
controls substantial wealth
Individual or Group:
Individual
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