As I Lay Dying

Set in the fictional Mississippi city of “Yoknapatawpha,” As I Lay Dying follows the Bundren family through a disturbing, yet enlightening journey to Addie Bundren’s hometown to bury her body. Throughout this journey, the story is told by a total of fifteen different narrators that reveal the challenges and intentions of each character. After reading this book, the reader can understand that every child in the Bundren family has suffered from some type of psychological abuse. According to the…

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is an ambitious novel that changes between characters in the story. By doing this Faulkner shows how the characters reason and act without being limited to just one character’s point of view and thoughts. This also evolves the story by not being limited to narration by one character, as a result, the reader acquires inside information from all of the characters, not just one single character, and what they judge about what other people are discerning. There are…

In Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying the story is told by more than one narrator, and illustrates the challenges of the Bundren family as they head to Jefferson to bury the matriarch of the family, Addie Bundren. By having multiple perspectives, Faulkner is able to present a rounded…

Addie Bundren in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying” written by Amado Chan, he declares that Addie Bundren is”portrayed as incompetent, unfulfilled, and dead” along with revengeful and defiant. Chan believes that these became stereotypical traits of women that Faulkner wrote. I refute the claim made by Chan since Addie propelled te plot of the novel. Chan's compelling claims ignored any evidence that may refute them. The first stereotypical trait of Addie's is incompetence. I believe the complete…

anger, and some may even find self benefitting opportunities through the situation. Symbolized through the emotionally disoriented characters, and the newly transpired death within an impoverished family down in Mississippi, William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying demonstrates how people’s subconscious reactions to both internal and external conflict control their individual thoughts and behavior. Around the 1930s, when the book had been set, the “Great Depression” era and world war II had just…

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner is the story of the Bundren family. The reader follows the quest of the Bundren’s before and after the death of the matriarch, Addie. Stream of Consciousness is used to relate from each Addie’s husband, their children, and several neighbors point-of-view. Through the consciousness of each of the characters the story of their “epic” journey to bury Addie in Jefferson and the events that ensue. The telling of the story each character’s true motives for traveling…

Siddhartha show the world’s current obsession with material wealth and material things hen Siddhartha tries life as a merchant. Or Faustus, the character who sold his soul to the devil for promises of infinite amounts of material wealth. Or in As I Lay dying, the character Anse is obsessed with obtaining his new dentures even after all the trouble his family went through. Oscar Wilde is a big believer in society’s obsession in material, useless thing instead of things of importance. Outside of…

portrayed this way in literature. They are rarely given the main character in literary works, but when they do receive a main role, the woman is usually depicted as dead, evil(a villain), incompetent, or unfulfilled. In Addie Bundren 's case in as I Lay Dying, she is dead for most of the novel, and we only hear about her through her thoughts while she is dead. In Addie 's case, her character is portrayed as revengeful and resistant, yet again another stereotype of women…

body under some floor boards? How about a brother knowingly trapping his sister in a tomb to die? Maybe even a mother lying in bed dying as her children watch. Well if you haven’t, gothic writers certainly have. These situations are all forms of gothic literature thought up by Edgar Allen Poe and William Faulkner. Two great examples of gothic literature are As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner and “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe. Gothic Literature is the fascination with all…

In Psalm 118:22, Jesus said “The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner stone.” Throughout Faulkner’s book As I Lay Dying, Cash Bundren is identified as a background character, with a seemingly demure and setback attitude compared to the rest of his family. He tempers his mind with hard labor, and only tries to fix broken things rather than fantasize about nice things he might have had in a different life. Over the course of the novel, he uses his steady attitude to…