Dicey
Text:
Character Key:
Display Name:
Dicey
Sort Name:
Dicey
Race:
Black
Gender:
Female
Class:
Free Black
Rank:
Secondary
Vitality:
Alive
Occupation:
Domestic Service
Specific Job:
Midwife
First Mentioned:
Real?:
No
Biography:
The narrator mainly calls "the old Negro woman" who delivers Milly's baby "the Negress" (535), but Sutpen mentions her name: "Dicey" (544). She witnesses Wash killing Sutpen, "peering around the crazy door with her black gargoyle face of a worn gnome" (545). She immediately flees the scene "with the agility of a goat" (545).
Individual or Group:
Individual
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