Anse Bundren is a lazy, selfish man, which results in being an ignorant person. He is like a small child, requiring the help of others for all things. Faulkner tells the reader that all Anse’s neighbors, especially Vernon Tull, have to help him with things like building Addie's coffin. Anse’s neighbors may have been spreading God’s word the first few times they came to help him but it is hard to love someone who can’t and won’t help themselves. Jewel and cash are the ones trying to get the wagon across the river, not Anse, even though that wagon holds the coffin of his wife's body. What is even worse is that he goes on to try and justify his laziness. He is constantly putting his own needs first, and not thinking about the needs of his own
