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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Online Book Summary
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LITERARY ELEMENTS
SETTING
Like all of Faulkner’s works, As I Lay Dying is set in the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha. The action takes place between the Bundren’s rural home and the city of Jefferson, which is about a day and a half’s ride away by horse.
LIST OF CHARACTERS
Major Characters
Addie
Bundren
The mother whose dying wish is to be buried in her family
plot in Jefferson. Her death instigates the primary movement of the novel, that
of transporting the body to Jefferson.
Anse Bundren
The father who uses the trip to Jefferson to get new teeth and a new wife.
Cash Bundren
The oldest of the Bundren children (29 or 30 years old) who makes
the coffin outside of Addie’s window.
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Darl Bundren
(Around 28 years old)
The most philosophical of the Bundren children and also the most conscious of
the futility of the situation.
Jewel Bundren
(Age
18) He is the love child of his mother Addie and the Reverend Whitfield and the
one who repeatedly saves his mother’s corpse.
Dewey Dell Bundren
(Age
17) She is the only daughter of the Bundren's and is pregnant with Lafe’s child.
The trip to Jefferson represents her chance to get an abortion.
Vardaman
Bundren
The youngest of the Bundren children (8 or 9 years old) who
has not yet progressed to the point where he can separate reality from metaphor.
Minor Characters
Cora Tull
A neighbor
whose narrative provides a religious commentary on the Bundren's.
Vernon
Tull or just Tull
Cora’s husband and friend of Anse.
Peabody
The local doctor.
Samson
Another neighbor who
lives near a bridge that the Bundren's intend to cross.
Whitfield
The
minister and father of Jewel.
Armstid
A farmer the
Bundren's meet on their trip.
Moseley
A pharmacist
who will not help Dewey Dell.
MacGowan
A drugstore
assistant who tricks Dewey Dell.
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