As I Lay Dying Addie Bundren Character Analysis

Who cares? Family is not important anyways.
In William Faulkner’s “As I Lay Dying” shows that family means nothing during a time of grief. They are all appearing to heroically fulfill Addie Bundren’s dying wish to be buried in her hometown of Jefferson. While traveling the come in contact with a few obstacles that not just the family have to go threw but also the decaying corpse of their mother. Every character except for Jewel is corrupted in a deep, developed personal lie.. They are all using this moment of travel as a convenience to their high hopes. Theres no grieving or mourning after the death of their beloved mother Addie Bundren, which is the most basic tribute a family can give.
Throughout the whole novel not once did a character mourn or grieve over the death

“Great God,” one says; “what they got in that wagon?” (219). While digging, Anse starts talking about money they need and not once did anyone mourn over their dead mother they were finally laying to rest. Two men came to take Darl away for setting the barn on fire. Jewel says, “ Kill him, Kill the son of a bitch” (227). They’re taking him to a mental institution in Jackson. But with Darl gone, the journey doesn’t even culminate in the burial of Addie Bundren. Dewey Dell goes in search for a doctor to abort her baby. In the look out a she finds a man names MacGowan that takes advantage of her and lies to her for sexual relations. Cash ends up with and infection in his foot and ends up getting it cut off by the doctor. Peabody says, “About next summer you can hobble around fine on this leg” (230). There is not trust in their family and it shows when Anse accuses Dewey Dell about lying about the cakes in the package. “Dont you touch it! If you take it your a their.” (245) and Anse responds saying, “My own daughter accuses me of being a thief. My own daughter.”