Despite the fact that Dilsey does not speak a word, the reader can determine, through her actions, that she passes judgement. When she “opened the door of the cabin and emerged,” she exhibited a force of habit as “she stood in the door for awhile with her myriad and sunken face lifted to the weather” (Faulkner, 330). Her judgement came when she then “examined the bosom of her gown” and then with “a child’s astonished disappointment” she “entered the house again and closed the door” (Faulkner, 331). Through this evidence as well as her old age, we can make the assumption that this was a routine judgement that she had made many times before.