Dilsey's Family

Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Sun, 2018-05-20 21:29
Text: 
"Appendix: Compson"
Character Key: 
Dilsey's Family
Display Name: 
Dilsey's Family
Sort Name: 
Dilsey's Family
AKA: 
Gibsons
Race: 
Black
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
Free Black
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Family: 
Gibson
First Mentioned: 
Compson Place in "Appendix: Compson" (Location)
Home: 
Compson Place in "Appendix: Compson" (Location)
Biography: 

Dilsey, her daughter Frony, her son TP, and her grandson Luster have separate entries in the "Appendix Compson" and in our database. This entry, however, represents the collective group referred to in the "Appendix" as "Dilsey's family," who lived as a group in the "one servant's cabin" left on the Compson property (330). If Faulkner is thinking of the "family" as he depicts it in The Sound and the Fury and "That Evening Sun," it also includes Dilsey's husband, Roskus, and another son, Versh.

Note: 
CUT: Although two of Dilsey's children, Frony and T. P., and her grandson Luster have separate entries in the "Appendix," there is a much larger network of Gibsons who serve as caretakers for the Compson family, and for Benjy Compson in particular. They all live in "one servant's cabin" at the rear of the Compson home (330).
Individual or Group: 
Group
Character changes class in this text: 

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