Submitted by crieger@semo.edu on Thu, 2016-01-07 10:54
This character has two names: in the story's present, when he works as an accomplished carpenter for the Compsons and is reputed to be "almost a hundred years old" (343), he is called "Sam Fathers," but when he was born into a tribe of Choctaw Indians he was given the name "Had-Two-Fathers" (345). At the center of the narrative, he tells Quentin Compson the account he himself heard many years ago about how he was conceived and named.
