Versh Gibson

Submitted by sfr on Sun, 2019-01-13 09:29
Character Key Number: 
63
Display Name: 
Versh Gibson
Sort Name: 
Gibson, Versh
Parent Character Key: 
Dilsey Gibson
Roskus Gibson
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

In The Sound and the Fury Versh Gibson is the first-born son of Roskus and Dilsey. In the earliest scenes that Benjy remembers, he works as Benjy's caretaker. Sometime before his father's death he has moved from Yoknapatawpha to Memphis; Dilsey blames her husband for his "bad luck talk" that "got them Memphis notions into Versh" (31). He is mentioned again, briefly, in "That Evening Sun," but otherwise does not appear again in the fictions - not even in "Appendix Compson," where his mother, sister, brother and nephew are described living in Memphis in the early 1940s.

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