No named character

One character I noticed that didn't have a name was Gertrude son. I think that possibly the fact that they don't have a name is because they're actions are almost unfairly being tied to someone else. There are examples of this throughout the book and leads me to believe its a motif. First we learn about Gertrude's and all we can think about of him is that Gertrude is a liquor dealing prostitute. Then we have Absalom's wife who now will only be remembered by "the wife of the murder". And finally there's the bigger term "natives". In this culture the white class think of all the natives as savages however, this obviously isn't true. But despite the fact that the natives might not all be bad; it doesn't matter. It didn't matter for Gertrude's son, Absalom's just like it doesn't matter for the natives.