Darl

Darl Darl, the second child of Anse and Addie Bundren is the most prolific voice in the novel As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner. Darl Bundren, the next eldest of the Bundren children, delivers the largest number of interior monologues in the novel. An extremely sensitive and articulate young man, he is heartbroken by the death of his mother and the plight of his family's burial journey. Darl seemed to possess a gift of …

…they stayed at Gillespie's place, he set the barn on fire where Addie's coffin was, supposedly to end the journey with Addie's decomposing corpse. After he sets fire to the Gillespie barn in an attempt to incinerate his mother's corpse, his family commits him against his will to a mental institution in Jackson. On the train to Jackson, his identity was completely cut off when be began to refer to himself in the third person.