Darl Bundren

Hello everybody, here im going to talk about Darl bundren, one of the sons of Mrs Bundren , and in my opinion he is the most important character in the novel as I lay dying.
First of all its important to say that Darl highlights as a narrator among the other narrators of the story, because the way he speaks, his descriptions, and he rules as a kind of omniscient narrator because he knew things that were imposible to know for every character. We are going to speak about the following:

First of all , he knew secrets about some of his siblings, for example Jewell, Darl asks Jewell about his real father , that will be known as the minister whitfield; and Dewey Dell´s most important secret, she is pregnant and she stills single, here i have a quotation in which Darl and Dewey dell speak about that:( QUOTE speech number 4 of Darl )

I said to Dewey Dell: “You want her to die so you can get to town: is that it?” She wouldn’t say what we both knew. “The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won’t you say it, even to yourself?”

But i think ta very interesting narration of this character is when Addie Bundren is about to die, even when Darl is in the road in order to get three dolars doing a job for Vernon Tull, Darl knows any detail that is going on at the house.( QUOTE speech number 5 of Darl)

PA stands beside the bed. From behind his leg Vardaman peers, with his round head and his eyes round and his mouth beginning to open. She looks at pa; all her failing life appears to drain into her eyes, urgent, irremediable.

Its hard to say if here Darl is just imagining what was going on in the house or if it was a kind of vision in real time.

The most shocking fact of theses visionary capacities of Darl is when he burns Gillespie´s farm , in order to let his mother´s body to have a fine rest and not to let that crazy journey continue, because Anse´s motives are not as noble as he pretends (he only worries about getting new teeth) or may be he knew what his father was going to meet a new woman there, introducing her to his siblings as Mrs bundren.

Darls timeline ends in a very strange way, when he is declared crazy by his family for burning the farm and he is going to be sent to an Asylum, he speaks about himself in third person:(QUOTE speech number 19 of Darl:)

DARL has gone to Jackson. They put him on the train, laughing, down the long car laughing, the heads turning like the heads of owls when he passed.
“What are you laughing at?” I said.
“Yes yes yes yes yes.”

That omniscient narration, and all the secrets that he knew about his relatives and about the future,including addresing to himself in third person whe he joined the asylum, gives me the idea that Faulkner itself was speaking through Darl in the whole story.