Unnamed Carnival Worker

Character Key Number: 
1701
Display Name: 
Unnamed Carnival Worker
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Carnival Worker
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

The man with whom Caddy's daughter Quentin runs away from home works for the "show" that performs in Jefferson over the Easter weekend. In The Sound and the Fury, he is identified in both Benjy's and Jason's sections by his "red tie" (49, 232). He is only mentioned in the "Appendix" that Faulkner wrote in 1945, as a "pitchman in a travelling streetshow" (330), but this text adds a detail to his biography: when he left with Miss Quentin, he "was already under sentence for bigamy" (342).