Analysis. As she sits next to Addie on her deathbed, Dewey Dell reflects on the experience harvesting cotton with Lafe, a laborer on the Bundrens' farm. She recalls her confused and confusing memory of how they "picked on down the row" and how she attempted to reason her way out of sleeping with Lafe. The plan was that if her cotton sack were
Section Fifty-Five, narrated by MacGowan. MacGowan is a clerk at a pharmacy. He sees Dewey Dell enter, finds her attractive, and pretends to be the doctor. Dewey Dell asks him, again indirectly, about getting an abortion. MacGowan decides to take advantage of the situation.
As I Lay Dying Summary and Analysis of Section 6. Sixth Section (Vardaman, Mosely, Darl, Vardaman, Darl, Vardaman, Darl, Vardaman, Darl; pages 183-218): Vardaman narrates. He and Darl discuss the buzzards. Cash is in pain, but denies it, claiming that his leg only hurts when they go over bumps. Mosely narrates.
Analysis. Vardaman runs out of the house and begins to cry after looking at the place in the dust where he placed the fish he caught. He notices that the fish he caught, now cut up, has become "not-fish" and "not-blood," which is now on his hands in overalls. Vardaman uses his own six-year-old intuition to relate the death of the fish he caught
Cash is the oldest son. He is the one whom Addie refers to when she says that she robbed Anse of one son. Cash was born at a time when his mother had just discovered that words are meaningless and that only through acts can people achieve an awareness of life. Thus, Cash seldom speaks in the novel and usually only after some action is performed.
Analysis. Cash attempts to explain why the coffin won't balance in an intense but short dialogue with an unnamed family member, who curses Cash, saying, "Pick up, goddamn your thick-nosed soul to hell." Cash's fixation with the coffin's balance shows that Cash does not express emotion verbally but channels it into care and sensitivity for
Samson invites the family to place Addie's coffin in the barn and spend the night with him. He tells them they should go back to New Hope in the morning and bury Addie there. Samson's wife, Rachel, is outraged by the whole ordeal, particularly Addie's corpse rotting in the barn. To Rachel, it is cruel and disrespectful to leave Addie unburied.
Anse explains that Darl and Jewel are away running an errand. Addie looks out the window at Cash, who has not budged from his project of making Addie's coffin. Addie calls to him again. Cash stares into the room through the window, while Anse and Vardaman sit silently and together, they all watch Addie die.
Here are some facts about the book and Faulkner's very deliberate undertaking of writing a "classic.". 1. As I Lay Dying has much in common with The Sound and the Fury. For six months
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as i lay dying chapter summary
