He dies test-flying an experimental airplane on the day of his son’s birth. Young Bayard disappears from Jefferson, leaving his now pregnant wife with Aunt Jenny. Despite promises to Narcissa to stop driving recklessly, he gets into a near wreck with old Bayard in the car, causing old Bayard to die of a heart attack. During the convalescence which follows, he establishes a relationship with Narcissa Benbow, whom he marries. That and the family disposition for foolhardy acts push him into a pattern of self-destructive behavior, especially reckless driving in a recently purchased automobile.Įventually young Bayard crashes the car off a bridge. Young Bayard is haunted by the death of his brother. Bayard and his twin brother John, who was killed in action, were fighter pilots. The novel begins with the return of young Bayard Sartoris to Jefferson from the First World War. The surviving Sartorises are his younger sister, Virginia Du Pre ("Aunt Jenny" or "Miss Jenny"), his son Bayard Sartoris ("Old Bayard"), and his great-grandson Bayard Sartoris ("Young Bayard"). Colonel John was a Confederate cavalry officer during the Civil War, built the local railroad, and is a folk hero. The wealthy Sartoris family of Jefferson, Mississippi, lives under the shadow of its dead patriarch, Colonel John Sartoris. The novel deals with the decay of an aristocratic southern family just after the end of World War I. His friend Ben Wasson was the model for Horace Benbow, while Faulkner's brother Murry served as the antetype for young Bayard Sartoris. Faulkner also fashioned other characters in the book on local people from his hometown Oxford. Faulkner's great-grandfather William Clark Falkner, himself a colonel in the American Civil War, served as the model for Colonel John Sartoris. The full text was published in 1973 as Flags in the Dust. The 1929 edition is an abridged version of Faulker's original work. It portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civil War. Sartoris is a novel, first published in 1929, by the American author William Faulkner.
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