Compson Inset: Dilsey's Cabin in The Sound and the Fury (Location)

Submitted by jburgers@gc.cuny.edu on Sun, 2014-04-27 18:48
Text: 
The Sound and the Fury
Location Key: 
Compson Place: Dilsey's Cabin
Display Label: 
Dilsey's Cabin
Map Icon: 
YoknapatawphaInset
Authority : 
Text (when unambiguous)
Other Texts Location Appears In: 
"That Evening Sun"
X: 
1736
Y: 
1290
Description: 

Dilsey and her family live in what is almost certainly a former slave cabin behind the Compsons' big house. The ground in front of the cabin is "bare," and it is "shaded" by three mulberry trees (266). Benjy, who occasionally sleeps there and likes the way it smells, refers to it as "Dilsey's house" (33), and at other points as "T.P.'s house" and "Versh's house."

Role: 
Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Negro-occupied Cabin
True X: 
1325
True Y: 
894

Home of Characters

Dilsey Gibson
Roskus Gibson
T.P. Gibson

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