Essay Archive - As I Lay Dying: Character's Words And Insight To Underlying Meanings
As I Lay Dying: Character's Words And Insight To Underlying Meanings
Fulfilling a promise they had made to their mother, Addie, Cash, Darl,
Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman, in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, journey
across the Mississippi countryside to bring her body to be buried in Jefferson,
alongside her immediate family. Each one, in turn, narrates the events of this
excursion as they are perceived. Though all of the family members are going
through the same experiences, each one expresses what they see and h....
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