her complicated emotional view towards her painful situation. Her language is dark and cold‚ and she often reiterates the idea that “words are no good” (page 171). Addie’s voice is of a woman who has only known the empty love of her father‚ and of Anse‚ and the hardships of motherhood. Words have never been true to her‚ and therefore she cannot understand their importance. Her morbid and angry voice is most present when she expresses a want to injure her students‚ and murder her husband. Her hatred
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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
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consciousness‚ by using this method it gives an expression to the confused and disordered flow of thoughts in each character. In addition‚ most of the chapters and narrators in the novel are from one single family‚ the Bundren family. In this family the members consist of Addie‚ Darl‚ Jewel‚ Cash‚ Anse‚ Dewey‚ and Vardaman. These characters present great intuition to the events and problems in the household.“It’s because he stays out there‚ right under the window‚ hammering and saw on that goddamn box” (14)
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Jewel‚ Anse’s bastard child‚ went to the barn‚ and when Anse called after him‚ Jewel did not respond. After Darl said that Jewel’s mother was a horse‚ Vardaman became intrigued by that thought and he wondered if that meant his mother was a horse too‚ but Darl assured him otherwise. Moreover‚ Vardaman noticed that Anse found disrespectful the fact that Cash brought his toolbox so he could work on Tull’s house and‚ also‚ the fact that Dewey
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able to have one of the biggest impacts on the rest of the characters and on the novel as a whole. In As I Lay Dying‚ Addie Bundren is one of those types of characters. She has only one chapter in the entire book‚ yet is somehow able to have the biggest influence on the rest of the characters. She is the basis of the story‚ and everything relates back to her. Addie Bundren seems to have such a heavy impact on the characters as they were constantly trying to please her. Darl always longed for her
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conditioning was not around yet‚ therefore it was an earlier time. (Page 81) Also throughout the entire beginning of the novel Cash’s only tools for building Addie’s coffin are a saw and hammer‚ there is no mention of any newer power tools. Then when Anse is talking
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Besides the symbolism in the story‚ the types of irony used‚ situational and dramatic irony help emphasize the image of a family dealing with each other while dealing with the phase of death. The family relations as well as the country environment are expressed through these types of irony. They often occur as while the book does deal with serious issues‚ the family dynamic is a big part of the novel and the people around them get involved with them. The situational irony in the story involves having
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“And then‚ life wasn’t made to be easy on folks: they wouldn’t ever have any reason to be good and die.” (Faulkner‚ 202). This suggests that Addie was lucky to die‚ because the rest of the family must carry out such an unbearable existence. The Bundren children must suffer Anse’s neglect‚ and make sacrifices for their family. In particular‚ Cash meticulously constructs his mother’s coffin‚ and this obsessive nature is mirrored in the way he cares for the family in general. Faulkner includes these
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Brianna Morris Ms. Amie Myers AML 2020 29 April 2015 “Perspective of Sanity in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying” William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying is a Modernist comedic tragedy about the Bundren family’s difficult journey to Jefferson to bury the matriarch of their family‚ Mrs. Addie Bundren. Mr. Faulkner separates this story into fifty-nine sections with fifteen different narrators in order to emphasize the characters’ relationships with one another‚ as well as each character’s perspective on
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Jewel and his dying mother‚ Addie. The novel shows it’s relation to Faulkner’s real life when it states that the Bundrens live on a rural farm in Mississippi in the 1920s. As stated in the previous paragraph‚ this is a similar setting as to where Faulkner grew up and started his writing career. In the early sections of the novel‚ we hear narration from all three brothers‚ as well as Anse‚ their father; Vardaman‚ their youngest brother and Dewey Dell‚ their only sister. Jewel and Darl set out on a trip
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