Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Sun, 2012-04-29 17:49
One of the three town mayors in the story, and the only one without a name, this man takes office in the early 20th century, and seems much less chivalrous than his 19th-century predecessor, Colonel Sartoris, who treats Emily as a lady who should not be bothered about financial matters . This new mayor sees her first and foremost as a tax-payer, though he is chivalrous enough to offer "to send his car" to bring her to the town's offices to pay her long-overdue property tax (120).
Submitted by cornellgoldw@fo... on Sun, 2012-04-29 17:46
The "Colonel Sartoris" in this story, the mayor of Jefferson who tells Miss Emily that she does not have to pay local taxes, is the son of the "Colonel Sartoris" who fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. He is better known as Bayard Sartoris, the (Old) Bayard of Faulkner's first Yoknapatawpha fiction, Flags in the Dust (1929), and one of the most frequently recurring characters in all the fictions.
Referred to only as "the placid, gaily turbaned mountain who superintended his hours," she is the mammy who takes care of Narcissa and Bayard's new-born son (395).
