If you've read The Sound & The Fury...
This is how I felt about Caddy and the chapter I thought presented her the best.
I wrote this for a Essay Quiz that was due tonight, soo here it is:


I think that every character has a special filter in their memory of their sister, Caddy. I don’t think that any of them, Benjy, Quentin, or Jason, really knew Caddy the way I wanted them to. I wanted more of an insight to her human nature. Quentin holds her on a pedestal of sorts. Jason is bitter about her failed marriage affecting his own affairs. Benjy’s filter is one of a child, so I feel like it’s the most honest one. The first chapter is the most difficult to read as it is jumpy and very confused by Benjy’s mental state; however, I can’t help but feel that Caddy is more real to Benjy than his other brothers. Within his shifting memories, it is easy to find the Caddy that I want to believe Faulkner created.
Caddy could be just a girl with a huge heart. She is the only person who really cares for her mentally ill brother, Benjy. The first time we see her sweet kindness to her brother is in a memory where Benjy is meeting Caddy coming home from school. (p 6) She’s talking to him like she really cares what he has to say and rubbing his cold hands to warm them up. She is the only person that talks to him with a softness in her voice like she loves him as though she’s his mother. His mother however treats him more with a tone of pity, calling him “that baby” and “my poor baby.” (p 8) Caddy reassures Benjy as soon as they are alone that he is not a “poor baby” and that he has her to care about him. In many memories, Caddy is the only one who can calm Benjy down and she does so by embracing him. Later in the chapter, when Benjy catches her out with Charlie, Caddy is more driven to take care of Benjy, then to just send him away in hatefulness as Charlie asks her to do. (p 47) He also suggests that Benjy is too dumb to understand her or hold a conversation. She sticks up for him in front of her part time lover and it is yet another example of her genuine care for Benjy. It is because of her relationship with Benjy that I cannot help but love her for her humanness. She might get caught up in sexual promiscuity later, but her seemingly heartless acts of giving herself to boys are dim in comparison to these love driven acts of selflessness.
Another reason I have decided to like Caddy, even though she is trapped in this messy tale of a life, is that she is a strong personality. She likes to “mother” and feel responsible for Benjy. She is eager to have control and be in charge of her brothers when her mother is sick. Also when she gets wet, she proves her “free bird” side and takes off her dress unafraid of the consequences of getting dirty. (p 18) Caddy said, “I don’t care, I’ll run away” and it instantly made me love her. It made me feel like she was willing to be herself inspite of her family’s discouragement to the point of running away even if it was a empty promise. I think that most of the Compsons, other than Benjy, have an eagerness for control and this is one of the ways that Caddy shows her own need. It could be said that this is the reason that she acts out and becomes promiscuous—to be in control of her body.
Caddy Compson is a very developed character, but through different filters. These examples are a part of the filter I chose to believe her integrity is built in. She is a loving sister and she is her own person. She is a free bird and a sweetheart. This is only how I choose to remember her upon putting down The Sound and the Fury, regardless of how naïve it may be.