Read: The Names by Florence Knapp ★★★★ 📚
She wonders again if she is doing this right. Any of it, all of it. If it's even the right thing for Gordon himself to be carrying on this tradition. Maybe consenting to live in the shadow of his father and his father's father is only perpetuating the likeness, increasing the weight of it for him. Perhaps calling their child something different would be a liberation. Not at first, but later.
Names change character & experience. Three versions of the same characters lives. The sliding doors moment comes when the name of a wee boy is chosen.