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 critic ....
Middle of paper
.... 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 another wife
and false teeth in Jefferson. When it ....
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