Caddy Compson

Caddy's entry in the "Appendix" is by far the longest, and does more than any other to suggest a rich life for the characters beyond the bounds of The Sound and the Fury. Although the entry begins by describing Caddy as "Doomed and knew it" (332), it goes on to sketch a possible future for Caddy that is full of agency as well as doom. She is "two months pregnant with another man's child" when she marries a young man from Indiana (332). She is divorced a year later, presumably when he discovers he is not the father of her child. She marries a second time, to a "minor movingpicture magnate," and divorces again five years later (332). "Still beautiful" at age 48, she "vanishes" in Paris near the beginning of the Second World War (332-33), but an image of what appears to be Caddy in occupied France later appears in a "slick magazine," next to a German General, in which she seems "ageless and beautiful, cold serene and damned" (334). The suggestion that Caddy is alive and creating a life for herself among the Nazis allows Faulkner to register both Caddy's rebelliousness and her tragedy in very striking terms. Although in 1929 he characterizes her transgressions as primarily sexual, he knows that a lack of patriotic sensibility will affect readers more sharply in 1946, immediately after the years of fighting Germans.