Sam

Although the narrator calls the Varner's cook the "only" servant of any sort in the whole district" (11), the Varner's also have at least one manservant named Sam. Among his jobs is carrying Eula "until she was five or six": "the negro man staggering slightly beneath his long, dangling, already indisputably female burden" (106). (At least one manservant, because the novel also refers to the Varner "family's negro retainers"; they are not otherwise described, but they are presumably also male because they can be seen walking on the local roads wearing Jody Varner's old clothes, 8.)