It was then, and then I saw Darl and he knew. Addie Bundren is dead. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you…. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not. It is not about pa and it is not about Cash and it is not about Jewel and it is not about Dewey Dell and it is not about me.
As I Lay Dying. Plot Summary. Darl 2. Cora 3. Darl 4. Jewel 5. Darl 6. Cora 7. Dewey Dell 8. Tull 9. Anse Darl Peabody Vardaman Dewey Dell Tull Cash Samson Cora Addie Whitfield Armstid Moseley MacGowan LitCharts Teacher Editions. Teach your students to analyze literature like LitCharts does. Detailed explanations, analysis, and citation info for every important quote on LitCharts. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of every Shakespeare play.
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He then set up the incident to look like his cousin had killed their uncle. Clifford was tried and convicted of murder, while Jaffrey went on to be very successful, due to the inheritance from his uncle. Decades later, both Jaffrey and Clifford were well into old age. This statement occurs after Paul makes a shocking ten thousand on Lively Spark in the Leger race.
When Paul tells Uncle Oscar that he made this money to give to his mother, he makes his Uncle Oscar promise that he will not let his mother know it was he who is providing her with this money. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft When you kill a man, you steal his life you steal his wife 's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. Dwayne Johnson played as John Matthews, an heroic father in the film. During the run, he is able to escape Cooper 's surveillance.
At the same time, Daniel goes to Malik 's house, killing his guards and mortally wounding him. Darl's importance appears not only in his complex thought processes and his ability to perceive and sense everything, but also in the fact that most of the important action is presented through his eyes.
Before leaving with the wagon to earn three dollars, Darl projects himself into the character of Addie. He later senses and tells of Addie's death in beautiful, heightened, poetic language. It is through Darl that the reader learns of the loading of the coffin, of Jewel's purchasing of the horse, of the loss of the coffin, of the recovery of the tools from the water, and of the burning of the barn.
It is even Darl who prevents Jewel from becoming involved in a fight with one of the Jefferson townsmen. It is evident, therefore, that Faulkner wrote into the character of Darl a key to the Bundren family. Darl is portrayed as the sane and sensible individual pitted against a world of backwoods, confused, violent, and shiftless Bundrens.
As the journey with Addie's rapidly decaying and odorous body progresses, the animosity between Darl and Jewel, and between Darl and Dewey Dell, heightens swiftly and rapidly approaches a climax. Jewel becomes more and more antagonistic after he is forced to sell his horse — the living symbol of Addie, on which he had lavished his love and violence.
As the tension mounts, Darl's perceptive ability becomes keener and more sensitive. It is Darl, and Darl only, who senses the futility of the whole ridiculous procession. In the beginning of the journey, seeing it in its absurd perspective, he is forced to laugh.
Then as the body gradually gives off its odors, it is Darl who first senses this new absurdity, and it is Darl who first perceives the buzzards hovering overhead in all their horrible significance. As the odors become stronger, as the buzzards increase in number, and as the journey becomes a ridiculous farce, Darl — sensitive, perceptive, and intelligent — realizes that something must be done to put an end to this grave injustice to his mother.
Just before Darl sets fire to the barn, he senses the presence and desires of his mother: "She's talking to God. She wants Him to hide her away from the sight of man. We must let her be quiet.
The barn burned, but Addie, still odorous as ever, was, in spite of Darl, saved by Jewel in fulfillment of her earlier prophecy. This one act, mature and intelligent, performed by Darl, was the basis on which the Bundren family decided to send him to Jackson's insane asylum. There was never an actual question of whether Darl was insane or not: that had nothing to do with the decision.
But as Cash put it: "It was either send him to Jackson, or have Gillespie [the owner of the barn] sue us. Of course, Darl has always been considered queer by the other people in the novel, but this is because he is superior, and in being superior he is different, and therefore, in their minds, queer. Anse and Cash therefore declare Darl crazy for financial reasons; Jewel accepts it violently and anxiously out of the heightened enmity between them. And Dewey Dell, responsible for Gillespie's knowing that Darl burned the barn, is the one most pleased in disposing of Darl, thereby insuring the secrecy of her pregnancy.
Thus, Darl's supposed insanity is imposed upon him, and a close reading of the novel suggests that Darl did not go insane. A study of Faulkner's methods in his other novels indicates that if Darl had gone insane, the reader would have been made aware of his regression toward insanity. Anse Bundren Her bumbling and ineffectual husband, who is anxious to take Addie to Jefferson so he can get some false teeth.
Cash Their oldest son, who is the carpenter and who builds the coffin for Addie. He is about twenty-nine. Essentially, she seems to imply that people substitute meaningless words for significant actions, and thus, with this view, she would detest Anse because all Anse can do is murmur platitudes. Vardaman is referring to his mother, who has died. Begin typing your search term above and press enter to search.
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