Dilcey

Family

Dilcey
Appears in	Gone With the Wind (book)
Gender	Female
Homeland	Unknown
Family	Prissy (daughter) Pork (husband)
Race	African, Native American

• Name: Dilcey
• Portrayer: None (Book Only)

• Spouse: Pork
• Gender: Female
• Family:
• Children: Prissy (daughter, father unknown)
• Relatives:
• Religion:
• Nationality: African, Native American

In the Book

Dilcey is mentioned early in the book. When Scarlett is waiting for Gerald O'Hara to return home to ask him about Ashley's engagement, Gerald is on his way back from Twelve Oaks where he was offering to buy Dilcey described in the book as:

...the broad wife of his valet, Pork. Dilcey was head woman and midwife at Twelve Oaks, and, since the marriage six months ago, Pork had deviled his master night and day to buy Dilcey, so the two could life on the same plantation. That afternoon, Gerald, his resistance worn thin, had set out to make an offer for Dilcey.

She has a daughter by another man named Prissy. While Prissy and Pork appear in the film adaptation, Dilcey does not.

Dilcey is a skilled midwife, which is why Prissy gets away with her biggest lie until the chips are down and Melanie is in labor. In the book, she is represented as practical and no-nonsense, but as a caring person. She is the one who tells Scarlett about the dying Ellen crying out for Phillippe (Ellen's lover who died before she married Gerald). Although the book doesn’t tell us this, Dilcey likely delivered Scarlett’s son, Wade who was Scarlett's first child with Charles Hamilton (Wade is also omitted from the film along with Ella, child of Scarlett’s second marriage with Frank Kennedy).

Physical Description

Dilcey is described in the book as:

Dilcey was tall and bore herself erectly. She might have been any age from thirty to sixty, so unlined was her immobile bronze face. Indian blood was plain to her features...the red color of her skin...all showed the mixture of two races. She was self-possessed and walked with a dignity that surpassed even Mammy's, for Mammy had acquired her dignity and Dilcey's was in her blood.

v - e - d
Media Gone With the Wind Characters Gerald O'Hara | Ellen O'Hara | Scarlett O'Hara | Suellen O'Hara | Carreen O'Hara | Brent Tarleton | Stuart Tarleton | John Wilkes | India Wilkes | Ashley Wilkes | Melanie Hamilton | Charles Hamilton | Frank Kennedy | Rhett Butler Locations Tara | Twelve Oaks | Atlanta See also Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Warner Bros. | Turner Entertainment