Sartoris

cast by these families. In this county the Sartoris and De Spain families cast the largest shadow and Abner Snopes, with his son Colonel Sartoris and their family live and worked beneath it. Colonel Sartoris, named after Abner’s previous employer whom he fought in the war with, sits in a makeshift courthouse as his father stands trial for burning his current employer’s barn down. The trial reaches a head and the Justice of the Peace calls on Colonel Sartoris to testify. As he approaches the…

was William Carl Falkner. Not only was he a soldier, but a politician. An author named Robert Coughlan, explains in his book about Faulkner 's private life, that readers do not have "... difficulty in identifying Colonel Falkner as the Colonel John Sartoris ..." in Faulkner 's stories.(Coughlan 37). Though Faulkner’s life was after the civil war, he still uses his great grandfather as an influence to his writings. Colonel Sartorius mirrors Faulkner’s great-grandfather by being both a soldier,…

attends Emily Grierson’s funeral. The funeral is located in Emily’s home, which no outsider has visited for more than ten years. Emily’s house was once-elegant, which means now the house is dated and from a lost era. The town’s former mayor, Colonel Sartoris, had suspended Emily’s tax responsibilities after her father’s death. Overtime, new officials come into position and make ineffective attempts to get Emily to recommence payments. Emily protests informing the officials that Colonel…

The room is like a “tomb furnished as … a bridal” (86) suite. Among the items found in this room is the toiletry set and clothes that Emily bought for Homer some forty years earlier. But the most disturbing thing that the townspeople find, is a man’s body that had “apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace… [and next to him is a] second pillow [with] the indention of a head… [and] a long strand of iron-gray hair” (86). It is difficult for any person who is of sound mind and body to be…

stubbornness. Miss Emily 's stubbornness is shown in her interaction with the tax collectors. As the next generation grew older and took political roles, they discover her arrangement with Colonel Sartoris is a sham. When talking about this arrangement, the narrator says "Only a man of Colonel Sartoris ' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it" (804). After confronting her about this false arrangement, they recognize her resistance and let it go,…

Symbolism is a form of communication to carry the meaning through the use of symbols. For example, the devil can be described as evil, dark, lure and sin. God, for many people can symbolize hope, a cross, a dove and faith. Colors may also be used as a symbol. When you’re approaching a stoplight, the color green means you can go, the color orange means to proceed with caution, and lastly the color red embodies to stop. The metaphor life is a roller coaster is symbolic because it indicates that…

(work on flow >) In place the reader learns that the story takes place in America possible in the South. Time is referenced in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s due to the house and the year of Colonel Sartoris exempted her taxes. Climate was difficult to find, however it represented Miss Emily’s emotions when she purchased arsenic. And finally atmosphere is the main characteristic for setting for it sets the mood of the entire story. In referencing back…

Emily Grierson, a Complex Character with a Complex Reality. In the short story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, the main character, Emily, is very interesting. She lives in an alternative reality where the rules of the world are not applied to her existence. There is a principle in philosophy that states that the way a man thinks is strongly influenced by the way a man lives. This seems to be the case of the protagonist of the story. Emily Grierson seems to be mentally disturbed, but…

on the subject of her duties; numerous years after her assessments were transmitted by the past leader, Colonel Sartoris, she was informed that she would need to start paying them once more. Not able to change in accordance with the new world around her, she determinedly states: “See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson” (Faulkner 2). In spite of the fact that Colonel Sartoris had been dead for very nearly ten years by then, she was not able acknowledge that he was no more drawn out in…

Sartoris “invented an involved tale” that claimed that Emily’s father loaned money to the town and preferred being repaid by the dispensation of Emily’s payment of taxes (363). After the next generation of government came to town, they believed that Sartoris’ (now dead) reasoning was all just a big hoax. They disregarded Sartoris’ directions and began mailing her letters to start paying her taxes again. After a few…