William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying Like Addie
Coleman, Shareca
As I Lay Dying Like Addie
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is a novel about a series of siblings and their dying mother. Each sibling has a different view on the sense of their dying mother and even their siblings, but it tells that story through each point of view differently. These characters see themselves being a certain amount of supportive and a certain amount of helpful after their demise of their mother, Addie Bundren. You have this depiction of who they think they are versus who they really are and how the situation really is. They seem to think this journey they are partaking in, is going perfectly, when it really isn’t and the only person who sees that is Darl—and in most cases Cash as well. The question of if they ever come to a realization of this unbeautiful reality at the end of the novel. The way they are perceived throughout the novel makes one realize that they do. But, alas, it could be just the foggy glass eyed view of their understanding of reality and they don’t realize understand it to begin with.
The siblings we have in the novel are Cash, Darl, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman. The mother …show more content…
She is pregnant and her reality of being pregnant is something that is skewed. She seems to think she can get an abortion and no one will know about her pregnancy. Darl knows, he figured her out. But, you get a sense of the question as to why does she think no one will figure out. Pregnancy grows and so does your body after a while, she seems to think that no one will ever know about this. The reality is that they will because she doesn’t go through with the abortion. But, it goes to show her skewed view of herself and what she is trying to hide. Another form of her skewed reality is that she is so obsessed with this pregnancy that she doesn’t realize or even seem to care about her mother. She seems to only care about being pregnant, getting an abortion and being slightly suspicious of male
As I Lay Dying Like Addie
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is a novel about a series of siblings and their dying mother. Each sibling has a different view on the sense of their dying mother and even their siblings, but it tells that story through each point of view differently. These characters see themselves being a certain amount of supportive and a certain amount of helpful after their demise of their mother, Addie Bundren. You have this depiction of who they think they are versus who they really are and how the situation really is. They seem to think this journey they are partaking in, is going perfectly, when it really isn’t and the only person who sees that is Darl—and in most cases Cash as well. The question of if they ever come to a realization of this unbeautiful reality at the end of the novel. The way they are perceived throughout the novel makes one realize that they do. But, alas, it could be just the foggy glass eyed view of their understanding of reality and they don’t realize understand it to begin with.
The siblings we have in the novel are Cash, Darl, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman. The mother …show more content…
She is pregnant and her reality of being pregnant is something that is skewed. She seems to think she can get an abortion and no one will know about her pregnancy. Darl knows, he figured her out. But, you get a sense of the question as to why does she think no one will figure out. Pregnancy grows and so does your body after a while, she seems to think that no one will ever know about this. The reality is that they will because she doesn’t go through with the abortion. But, it goes to show her skewed view of herself and what she is trying to hide. Another form of her skewed reality is that she is so obsessed with this pregnancy that she doesn’t realize or even seem to care about her mother. She seems to only care about being pregnant, getting an abortion and being slightly suspicious of male