Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Mon, 2018-05-21 13:13
Although Faulkner limits Dilsey's entry to "They endured" (343), his placement of Dilsey and her family members, the Gibsons, after the Compsons in the "Appendix" does not reflect merely their secondary status in the household. The Gibsons are the ones who will survive the crumbling of the Compson legacy. Each member of Dilsey's family is described as enjoying a life of entertainment and family far from Jefferson.
Submitted by ekp23@cornell.edu on Mon, 2018-05-21 12:44
Caddy's illegitimate daughter Quentin is named after her uncle, Quentin Compson III. The "Appendix" reports that she is "doomed to be unwed" (341). At age 17, she steals nearly seven thousand dollars from her uncle, Jason Compson IV, and runs away with a pitchman from a visiting carnival. Like her mother, she simply "vanished," but the text cautions that, "whatever occupation overtook her" would not appear in the glamorous forms that her mother's has taken (342).
