Faulkner dying

‘As I Lay Dying’ by William Faulkner is a story about a family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie Bundren, their wife and mother. Addie is a hidden character throughout most of the book. We read and see the views of her family while they take her to get buried in Jefferson, and gain different perspectives of this character upon which the story is based. All we know about her in the …

…Darl speaks to him about who Jewel is and how he is and this causes a complication in the way the little boy thinks. Darl is one of Addie’s least favorite sons. He feels totally rejected by his mother. He spent his life looking up to her as the most sacred person he knows and in return she ignored him and gave all her love to Jewel. Darl’s psychotic ideas could have been