Wallstreet Panic Snopes

A "little periwinkle-eyed boy" (304), Eck Snopes' son is "five or six" when he first appears (73) in The Hamlet and "about ten years old" when he is described in any detail later in the novel (293). Eck tells Ratliff how he left the boy with his mother, only sending for him a year after settling in Frenchman's Bend. Until then, the boy had "no actual name" (295) for many years, but is finally given a name after I.O. Snopes reads about the recent economic downturn; as Eck puts it, they figured that "if we named him Wallstreet Panic it might make him get rich like the folks that run that Wallstreet panic" (295).