(Schmoop 1) One of Faulkner’s many novels, “As I Lay Dying,” takes place in Mississippi in the 1920’s. When Addie’s Bundren’s dying request is to be buried with her blood family in a town forty miles away, her husband and children do just that upon her death. Their long journey is arduous and full of turmoil and mishaps, but they are successful in the end. In the novel,
Selene Pola ENGL 380 Professor Hart 7 December 2014 As Addie Lays Dying In the novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner it seems that all roads lead to Addie Bundren. Even though Addie’s voice in the novel is one that is buried, one could argue that the text mainly revolves around her powerful monologue. Whether it was intentional or not, we will never know but Faulkner’s title for this novel seemingly fits around her character, she is speaking to the readers as she lays dying both psychically
The setting in William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying” takes place in the outskirts of Mississippi, on the road to Jefferson where Annie, the mother of the Bundern family, will be buried. This novel takes place in the 1920’s within the United States. 4.“As I Lay Dying” offers a variety of conflicts throughout the book. The main points of the book are shown through conflicts and the ideas that include family and living life. The book does an excellent job since the narrator is not one set person
perspectives, Dewey Dell’s character and personality are developed; unlike the coy and naive girl she is played out to be, there lies great depth in her character when the text is analyzed. Dewey Dell is the fourth child and the only daughter of the Bundren family. Essentially born to negate Jewel’s sinful birth. Dewey Dell’s life seems as though it is predestined to be full of loneliness and negativity. To make things worse, she is pregnant in a manner that, to the social taboos of the