First of all, Dilsey would react to and handle being a grandmother by not only being loving and caring to all her grandchildren, but also a dependable, motherly figure in their life. These are all noticeable characteristics of hers that she puts into practice often. On Benjy’s thirty-third birthday, she goes out and buys him a birthday cake with her own money even though her status does not allow her to have much money as she explains to Mrs. Compson, “I brought it. It never came out of Jason’s pantry. I fixed him some birthday” (Faulkner, 73). …show more content…
She is always there for the Compson children to guide, sustain, care for, and love them while one of their parents is killing himself with alcohol and the other is self-absorbed and sick. If she was thrown into this position she would no doubt be a great and beneficial person for her grandchildren to have in their