Samson

One of the narrators of As I Lay Dying, Samson lets the Bundren family spend a night in his barn on their trek to Jefferson. His having a barn suggests he is a farmer, but at the start of the section he narrates he is sitting with a group of men at "the store" (112) - making it seem just as possible that he is both a country storekeeper and a small farmer. (When the name "Samson" recurs in Light in August, the phrase "somebody at Samson's" makes the idea of a store even more likely.) In any case, his narrative and his treatment of his wife as well as the Bundrens shows him to be a kind man who knows when to keep silent.