LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Sartoris
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Sartois
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Dela Rosa
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colonel Sartoris is a former mayor of the town where Emily lives in ‘A Rose for Emily. ‘ Like Emily, he opposes change after the Civil War and is responsible for Jim Crow laws to continue the oppression of African Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -John Sartoris is the stalwart of the South, possessed with virtue, nobility, valor, and a deeply embedded loyal devotion to the customs of the southern culture and a deep desire to retain those long-honored traditions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Colonel Sartoris A former mayor of Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris absolves Emily of any tax burden after the death of her father. His elaborate and benevolent gesture is not heeded by the succeeding generation of town leaders.
Detailed explanation-4: -Faulkner’s great-grandfather William Clark Falkner, himself a colonel in the American Civil War, served as the model for Colonel John Sartoris. Faulkner also fashioned other characters in the book on local people from his hometown Oxford.
Detailed explanation-5: -He built a railroad in the county, and when it was finished (in 1876) he ran for Congress. He was shot and killed by his partner in the railroad enterprise and political opponent, Ben J. Redmond, on September 4, 1876.