Whereas the first two stories of this novel are tied together by the pranks and the childish games of Bayard and Ringo, the third story introduces the concept which will ultimately cause the death of Granny, Miss Rosa. The Sartoris house has been burned; the Sartoris mules, the family’s silverware, […]
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Of all the individual stories in The Unvanquished, “Retreat” is the most diffused and the least unified; even though it is divided into only two parts, it nevertheless deals with several significant events without ever bringing them into a unified whole. In the first section, which occurs about a year […]
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The title of this story means “to lie in wait in the woods” or “to ambush”; by old chivalric codes of honor, then, the title carries a negative connotation because in olden times no real soldier would stoop so low as to ambush his enemy. In the title of the […]
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Bayard Sartoris The narrator of all the stories; he is twelve years old in the first story, and he matures during the course of all the stories. In the final story, he is twenty-four years old. Colonel John Sartoris Bayard’s father, whom he admires in spite of recognizing many of […]
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Faulkner created the mythological county of Yoknapatawpha in his third novel, Flags in the Dust. This particular novel, however, was not published during Faulkner’s lifetime; it appeared posthumously in 1973. As a result, Faulkner’s readers were introduced to Yoknapatawpha County in Sartoris (1929), a heavily edited and much shorter version […]
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