Once a Bitch, Always a Bitch”: Rereading Caddy in The Sound and the Fury

This academic article offers a critical re‑reading of the character Caddy Compson from William Faulkner’s modernist novel The Sound and the Fury. Although Caddy never speaks directly in the novel and is narrated mainly through the perspectives of male characters, the study argues that she resists patriarchal control and reshapes her identity through narrative absences and memories. The analysis explores how the dismissive phrase “once a bitch, always a bitch” reflects central male anxieties about her independence and transgressive behavior, and how Caddy’s willfulness challenges the novel’s gendered power structure. The article contributes to feminist literary criticism of Faulkner’s work by showing that Caddy’s presence persists beyond male narration and symbolizes a subversive female subjectivity in early twentieth‑century Southern literature.

Loại tài liệu:

Article - Bài báo

Tác giả:

Hemsptead, Susanna

Đề mục:

Literary Criticism

Nhà xuất bản:

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Ngày xuất bản:

Fall 2017

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Định dạng:

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Nguồn gốc:

The Faulkner Journal, Volume 31, Number 2, Fall 2017, Pages 43-66

Liên kết:

ISSN 0884-2949

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Once a Bitch, Always a Bitch”: Rereading Caddy in The Sound and the Fury

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