As I Lay Dying
Beginning of paper
William Faulkner's is a novel about how
the conflicting agendas within a family tear it apart.
Every member of the family is to a degree responsible for
what goes wrong, but none more than Anse. Anse's
laziness and selfishness are the underlying factors to every
disaster in the book.
As the cri ....
Middle of paper
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Before she dies Addie requests to be buried in Jefferson.
When she does, Anse appears obsessed with burying her
there. Even after Addie had been dead over a week, and
all of the bridges to Jefferson are washed out, he is still
determined to get to Jefferson.
Is Anse sincere in wanting to fulfill his promise to Addie,
or is he driven by another motive? Anse plays "to
perfection the role of the grief-stricken widower"
(Bleikasten 84) while secretly thinking only of getting
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Word count: 660
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
