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This is the first 1,000 characters of 826 words (3.3 pages) in the essay titled As I Lay Dying Adam Cooper Cooper 1In one of William Faulkner s greatest novels, As I lay Dying, the character s selfishness is revealed. As I Lay Dying is a detailed account of the Bundren s family trek across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As Addie is dying, all the characters go through a different state of emotions, all of which are explained in fifty-nine chapters. An analysis of William Faulkner s As I Lay Dying reveals the importance of goals, mishaps, and characters as they look on the death of Addie. During the initial stage after Addie s death three main goals are exposed: burying her, getting new teeth for Anse, and getting an abortion for Dewey Dell. According to George Wolfe, Addie s section is narrated in tense, cryptic, and expository prose because Addie is a person who has tried to solve some of the basic problems of life and has failed (203). To Cash, his mother is his world, and he does not realize she dies because he is too busy trying to build her a coffin. The family is able to deal with Addie s death as a whole, although Vardaman has a harder time, while Dewey Dell is anxious for other reasons all together. According to Warren, Throughout Addie s life, she lived with a man that was emotionally dead from the beginning, and it basically killed her (172). Anse was always a selfish man, so, it is no surprise he is ready to get to Jeff... |
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Keywords: dewey dell, addie, william faulkner, i lay dying, jefferson county, getting an abortion, anse, mishaps, flood, teeth, expository prose, river floods, selfish man, greatest novels, george wolfe, adam cooper