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Faulkner’s obsession with the horse is well documented in accounts of his antics, from beginning until his final days at his home in Mississippi. Blotner documented Faulkner as saying, “I’m scared to death of horses… that’s why I can’t leave them alone.(Blotner, 377)” This reckless attitude towards something he knows is dangerous is shown repeatedly in many of his Sartorises, the characters that many critics believe to be Faulkner’s literary incarnations. The effects of this pastime appear in many of his novels; how a man postures with or regards his equestrian companion(s) often displays his status and masculinity, or lack thereof. Faulkner does not use horses lightly in his writing; they are not simply modes of transportation, but more of a link to the leashed primal forces of nature that many of his characters exemplify. A common joke between modern day horse lovers goes like this; “A little more than 10 thousand years ago, one caveman said to another, I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse. So they did.” That’s how man and horse’s first union was started; man used horses for meat and milk. Historians don’t know for sure when man started domesticating horses for riding purposes, but once we did, we