Unnamed Show Cook

Character Key Number: 
1734
Display Name: 
Unnamed Show Cook
Sort Name: 
Unnamed Show Cook
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In The Sound and the Fury the old "man in a dirty apron" Jason spots at the train carrying the traveling show in Mottson is probably a cook. Though smaller than Jason, he becomes a "puny fury" when he feels Jason has insulted him, driving to get to his "butcher knife" and then attacking Jason with a "rusty hatchet" (309-10). As the owner of the show later tells Jason, warning him to stay away from the show, "That damn little wasp'll kill you" (312).