Unnamed Father of Boy Hunter

In a surviving seventeen-page typescript for "The Old People," the father of the boy hunter is referred to as "Mr Compson," presumably the father of Benjy, Caddy, Quentin and Jason. By July 1941, when Faulkner began work on "The Bear" section of Go Down, Moses, the boy is Isaac (Ike) McCaslin, and the role of his father is played instead by his cousin, Carothers Edmonds. In this magazine version, which was adapted from that manuscript, the character has no name at all, although it is clear that he belongs to Yoknapatawpha's upper-class and owns a farm outside of Jefferson. He goes hunting every November with Major de Spain, old General Compson, Walter Ewell, and Boon Hogganbeck.