# Caroline Compson — The Sound and the Fury character guide

> Caroline Compson in The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Mother, Mrs. Compson, Miss Cahline, Cahline

**First appearance:** 0000-april-seventh-1928

## Who they are

The hypochondriac, self-pitying Compson matriarch.

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