Miss Daingerfield

Character Key Number: 
1633
Display Name: 
Miss Daingerfield
Sort Name: 
Daingerfield, Miss
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

In The Sound and the Fury, Miss Daingerfield is one of two young women on a pleasure outing with Mrs. Bland, Gerald, Spoade and Shreve when Quentin is arrested for kidnapping the unnamed Italian girl. Quentin notes that she and Miss Holmes, the other young woman, have "little white noses" (145) and look at him "through veils, with a kind of delicate horror" (141).