As I Lay Dying Faulkner Characters
They are also a more intricate representation of the process of thought.
As i lay dying faulkner characters. The bastard child of addie and whitfield the minister. The wife of anse bundren and mother to cash darl jewel dewey dell and vardaman. Addie bundren the dying mother who has ordered her coffin to be built under her window and who has extracted a promise from her family that they will take her to jefferson to bury her. The second oldest son of the bundren family.
He is sensitive intuitive and intelligent and his monologues are some of the most eloquent. When his wife dies he is determined to take her body to jefferson as he had promised even though the town is forty miles away. Anse bundren her bumbling and ineffectual husband who is anxious to take addie to jefferson so he can get some false teeth. They appear in the novel as additional perspectives counter to those of the bundren family members highlighting the bundren s strangeness in conversation with their parents.
Peabody is the bundrens family doctor. Though darl seems to understand him. Anse bundren an ignorant and poor white man. One of the fifteen narrators.
In a rickety old. As i lay dying.