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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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As I lay Dying and the Odyssey As I lay dying and the Odyssey can both be considered books of epic quests with incredible odds. Faulkner takes the title of As I Lay Dying from a line spoken in the Odyssey by the Greek warrior Agamemnon. Agamemnon tells Odysseus when he travels to the Underworld‚ “As I lay dying‚ that woman with the dog’s eye would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.” Both books give off extraordinary characters‚ with what some may call outlandish behavior‚ to possibly throw
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to 50% of the population in the United States (Goudreau). In the novel‚ As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner‚ Dewey Dell may be considered introverted‚ or a person who does not communicate their emotions well with others. However‚ each member of the Bundren family has something to hide‚ therefore Dewey Dell is not as introverted as the audience may think. Dewey Dell makes a preposterous decision when she decides to hide her pregnancy from her family. Dewey Dell‚ a character familiar with distrust in
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way‚ we can analyze the topic by character based on their own opinions. Throughout the story it is quite easy to see that the tension is flaring. Some people are angry‚ some are sad‚ and others simply want to have more time. In my reading‚ I found Anse to be one of the easiest characters to read when it came to his actions in regard to Addie’s inevitable death. Though I imagine that he’s normally a relatively calm and peaceful man‚ this incident has caused him to become somewhat angry and in denial
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