The most significant part of As I Lay Dying is located on page 177. In the point of view of Whitfield. His line states “When they told me she was dying, all that night I wrestled with Satan, and I emerged victorious. I woke to the enormity of my sin; I saw the true light at last, and I fell on my knees and confessed to God and asked his guidance and received it. “Rise, “ He said; “repair to that home in which you have put a living lie, among those people with whom you have outraged My Word; confess your sin aloud, It is for them, for that deceived husband, to forgive you: not I” So I went. I heard that Tull’s bridge was gone; I said “Thanks, O Lord, O Mighty Ruler of all;” for by those dangers and difficulties which I should have to surmount, I saw that He had not abandoned me; that my reception again into His holy peace and love would be the sweeter for it.
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We know in the book that Addie has 5 children . Cash, Darrel, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman. But she has always had a special connection to the middle child, Jewel. Why ? Because this was her child with Whitfield . Addie hated Anse and we know this from previous chapters in the book so she didn't like cash or Darrel because they were from Anse a man who she thought took her independence
We know in the book that Addie has 5 children . Cash, Darrel, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman. But she has always had a special connection to the middle child, Jewel. Why ? Because this was her child with Whitfield . Addie hated Anse and we know this from previous chapters in the book so she didn't like cash or Darrel because they were from Anse a man who she thought took her independence