Tom-Tom Bird
Character Key Number:
1327
Display Name:
Tom-Tom Bird
Sort Name:
Bird, Tom-Tom
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
Yes
Biography:
As "Tom-Tom" in "Centaur in Brass" and as "Tom Tom" in The Town, he works as the day fireman for Jefferson's power plant. (In this context a 'fireman' is someone who keeps a fire in a boiler burning, not one who puts fires out.) In both texts he is a "big bull of a man weighing two hundred pounds, "sixty years old," and married to a young wife he maintains "with the strict jealous seclusion of a Turk in a cabin about two miles down the railroad track from the plant" (16, 152).