As I Lay Dying Setting Analysis

5) The Setting The setting of "As I Lay Dying" takes place in Yoknapatawpha county, Mississippi during the turn of the 20th century. After the death of Addie Bundren, the Burdens transported her coffin towards her burial ground in Jefferson. During their trek, of nine days, they experienced many milieu: there small hilly farm, a overflooded river, a burned barn, and the civilized city of Jefferson. The Burdens farm is in the middle of nowhere, with only a road going through it and their closest neighbor, the Tull's, being a mile away. Also their farm is on a steep bluff, so steep that their doctor, Peabody, had to be hosted up to see Addie. Another setting will be the overflowing river and the washed out bridge, where the river was so flooded that it carried Addie's coffin, Darl, Cash, and Jewel downstream. Gillespie barn was a very big barn that hold many animals and many hay bales. During there stay the Bundrens slept inside Gillespie house and placed Addie's coffin inside the Gillespie barn, where Darl burned the barn and hid from his family under the
The mention of eyes are fairly common with basically every character judging each other in a way that is either bad or good: Darl commenting on Jewel’s eyes, “Jewel’s eyes look like pale wood in his high-blooded face", Peabody and Cora documenting Addie’s close eyes, "Her eyes look like lamps blaring up just before the oil is gone.", and Dewey Dell and Anse chilling idea with Darl’s eyes, “the land runs out of Darl’s eyes; they swim to pinpoints. They begin at my feet and rise along my body to my face, and them my dress is gone: I sit naked on the seat above the unhurrying mules, above the travail." The purpose of these several imagery quote is to show us that with different perspectives, all of the characters will reach the same conclusion of each other eyes and or possibly other characters