(Fun Fact: I wrote a Padlet post titled 'ooh na na what's my name?' with Rihanna's 'What's My Name' linked at the top. Here it is again!)
These constantly shifting identities makes the past extremely ambiguous and confusing, especially because the characters themselves seem to be confused. How could McCann and Goldberg, who are supposedly working this ‘job’ together, not know each other’s first names? Or do they actually have multiple names, and is there a story / reason behind each one? First, Goldberg mentions that only his wife and mum (two women we have not seen and remain in his ambiguous past) call him 'Simey'. Second, he switches to 'Seamus' instead of 'Dermot' when speaking 'gently' to McCann. Third, he gets very agitated (and even 'murderous'!) when McCann uses the name 'Simey'. But why does he react so violently? Is it because McCann was the one to call him ‘Simey’? He didn’t seem to have a problem with telling the others that his wife and mum used to call him ‘Simey’, so his reaction to McCann using it is extremely strange. In addition to that, whenever he brings up the fact that they used to call him ‘Simey’ instead of ‘Nat’, he brings up the story of him coming home to something on the table. The fact that these stories and the way in which they are told are nearly identical makes it seem as though these are just stories that he made up for show; however, his violent reaction still confuzzles me.