The novel As I Lay Dying was written in 1930 by William Faulkner. It is narrated by fifteen different characters. Perhaps the most widely hated of all characters in this novel is Anse Bundren. Darl, one of Anses sons, says that “Pa’s feet are badly splayed, his toes cramped and bent and warped, with no toenail at all on his little toes, from working so hard in the wet homemade shoes when he was a boy.” (11). He is very lazy. Darl says, “I have never seen a sweat stain on his shirt. He was sick once from working in the sun when he was twenty-two years old, and he tells people if he ever sweats, he will die. I suppose he believes it.” (17). Not only is Anse lazy, but he also does not love his wife and children. Anse does not love his wife Addie. If he did, he would have called Peabody sooner rather than right as she was dying. Dr. Peabody says, “And I knew that if it had finally occurred to Anse himself that he needed [a doctor], it was already too late.”
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Right after Addie dies, Anse forces Dewey Dell to cook dinner even though she is grieving herself.
“Pa looks down at the face, at the black sprawl of Dewey Dell's hair, the outflung arms, the clutched fan now motionless on the fading quilt. ‘I reckon you better get supper on,’ he says. Dewey Dell does not move. ‘Git up, now, and put supper on,’ pa says. ‘We got to keep our strength up. I reckon Doctor Pea-body's right hungry, coming all this way. And Cash'll need to eat quick and get back to work so he can finish it in time.’”(50)
When Dewey Dell does make dinner, her father does not appreciate it. “Where’s that big fish Bud caught sister?” [Anse] says…”I never had no time to cook it.” “Plain turnip greens is mighty spindling eating for a man my size,”…”You ought to took time,” (60)
Anse also gets angry at Jewel for buying a horse with his own money rather than being proud of his son for his first business
Right after Addie dies, Anse forces Dewey Dell to cook dinner even though she is grieving herself.
“Pa looks down at the face, at the black sprawl of Dewey Dell's hair, the outflung arms, the clutched fan now motionless on the fading quilt. ‘I reckon you better get supper on,’ he says. Dewey Dell does not move. ‘Git up, now, and put supper on,’ pa says. ‘We got to keep our strength up. I reckon Doctor Pea-body's right hungry, coming all this way. And Cash'll need to eat quick and get back to work so he can finish it in time.’”(50)
When Dewey Dell does make dinner, her father does not appreciate it. “Where’s that big fish Bud caught sister?” [Anse] says…”I never had no time to cook it.” “Plain turnip greens is mighty spindling eating for a man my size,”…”You ought to took time,” (60)
Anse also gets angry at Jewel for buying a horse with his own money rather than being proud of his son for his first business