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As I lay dying
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1.
"It's because he stays out there, right un-
der the window, hammering and sawing on that ******* box. Where she's got to see him. Where every breath she draws is full of his knocking and sawing where she can see him saying See. See what a good one I am making for you." (14)
Narrator: Jewel
Context: He is watching Cash make the coffin
Greater Significance: This quote shows Jewel's resent-
ment towards Cash. He is very mad at Cash because he is making a coffin for Ad-
die right in front of her win-
dow where she can see it. The quote shows that Jewel likes his mother and wants to make her comfortable before she dies.
2.
"And Jewel dont care about anything he is not kin to us in caring, not care-kin" (26)
Narrator: Dewey Dell
Context: She is explaining the family dynamics Greater Significance: Dewey Dell is explaining how Jewel does not care about the fami-
ly. In fact it is later learned that Jewel is not related to any of his siblings. Perhaps not shar-
ing the same father with his siblings makes Jewel different from them. He always seems to be the outlier of his siblings.
3.
"I have done things but neither better nor worse than them that pretend otherlike, and I know that Old Master will care for me as for ere a sparrow that falls. But it seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road." (38)
Narrator: Anse
Context: he is explaining to Tull how he got to the situation in which Addie is lying on her death bed and also he keeps on mentioning it is going to rain soon
Greater Significance: Anse does not want to leave home, 1 / 5
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but he does because Addie makes him.
4.
"Anse standing there like a scarecrow, like he was a steer standing knee-deep in a pond and somebody come by and set the pond up on edge and he aint missed it yet." (72)
Narrator: Tull
Context: He is telling cora what just happened at the bridge
Greater Significance: It shows that Anse is both oblivious and lazy. Through out the book Faulkner portrays Anse as lazy and ingnorant. Before the journy to Jefferson Anse had not left the house for 12 years and he sat in house being lazy and making other people do things for him.
5.
"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time." (169)
Narrator: Addie
Context: It is a flashback to marrying anse and having an affair with whit fielf
Greater Significance: Addie understands that she is very much a mortal. She see's no quality in life, because she is just going to die any-
ways. Faulkner wants to ex-
plain how Addie gave no val-
ue to her life and her only in-
tention was to make Anse suf-
fer once she died.
6.
"He had a word, too. Love he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a hape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear." (172)
Narrator: Addie
Context: she is explianing that she never like Anse
Greater Significance: She never loved Anse. She had four out of her five children 2 / 5
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with a man she never liked. Now she is making him tak-
er all the way to Jefferson to make him suffer. Although the children suffer more than he does.
7.
"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." (177)
Narrator: Whittfield
Context: He is explaining how is was going to tell Anse about him and addie but he decided not to
Greater Significance: Whit-
tfield is explaining how he went to God for guidance on how to handle the aftermath of his affair with Addie. He ex-
plains how it was God who told him not to tell Anse about him Addie. Indeed he may think that is what God told him to do or maybe because he could not build up the courage to tell Anse.
8.
"The sound of it has become quite peace-
ful now, like the sound of the river did. We watch through the dissolving procenium of the doorway as Jewel runs crouching to the far end of the coffin and stoops to it. For an instant he looks up and out at us through the rain of burning hay like a portiere of flaming beads, and I can see his mouth shape as he calls my name." (222
Narrator: Darl
Context: Gelepsies barn is on fire
Greater Significance: He is seeing his own creation of the barn on fire. Meanwhile Jew-
el is determined to save the body of his dead mother and runs right into the fire. It is never explained why Darl sets Gilepsies barn on fire but, by doing it gives the reader the first glimpse of Darl's insanity.
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As I lay dying
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"Three negroes walk beside the road ahead of us; ten feet ahead of them a white man walks. When we pass the negroes their heads turn suddenly with that expression of shock and instinctive outrage. "Great God," one says; "what they got in that wagon?" (229)
Narrator: Darl
Context: They are in the Wag-
on heading to Jefferson, they just stopped because Dewey Dell wanted to change into her Sunday clothes. Greater Significance: well it shows that the Bundrens don't go unseen also how he uses the word negro. Faulkn-
er wants to show that the bun-
dres are racist.
10.
"Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of u pure sane un-
til the balance of us talks him that-a-way. it's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it." (233)
Narrator: Cash
Context: they are deciding what to do with darl before he goes away to a menta hospi-
tal
Greater Significance: Cash is questioning whether or not it is acceptable to call someone insane based on what they did. He thinks Gillepsie and Anse are misjudging Anse for what Darl did. Faulkner wants to show how Cash view sanity and also a different perspec-
tive on Darl's terrible act.
11.
"But when we got it filled and covered and drove out the gate and turned into the lane where them fellows was waiting, when they come out and come on him and he jerked back, it was Dewey Dell that was on him be-
fore even Jewel could get at him. And then I believe I knowed how Gillespie knowed about how his barn taken fire." (237)
Narrator: Cash
Context: They just burried Ad-
die and when the leave Gilep-
sie confronts darl about the burning of the barn
Greater Significance: Once Darl is acused burning of the barn his life forever changes. He is sent to a metnal hospital because of it.
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12.
"'Ah,' I says. 'Have you got female trou-
bles or do you want female troubles? If so, you come to the right doctor.' Them country people. Half the time they dont know what they want, and the balance of the time they cant tell it to you." (243)
Narrator: MacGowan
Context: Dewey Dell comes in wanting to get an abortion, but she does not know that she wants an abortion. Greater Significance: Mac-
Gowan is not actually a doc-
tor. MacGowan is abusing Dewey Dell. Faulkner is show-
ing how gullible Dewey Dell is and how it gets her into a terrible situations. The reason why Dewey Dell is pregnant is because she was gullible.
13.
"And then I see that the grip she was car-
rying was one of them little graphophones. It was for a fact, all shut up as pretty as a picture, and everytime a new records would come from the mail order and us setting in the house in the winter, listening to it, I would think what a shame Darl couldn't be to enjoy it too. But it is better so for him. This world is not his world; this life his life." (261)
Narrator: Cash
Context: the end of book. Anse just got new teeth and remarried
Greater Significance: It shows that Cash would live with one leg. It shows that he misses Darl after he leaves. He thinks the mental institution is the best place for him.
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