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This is the first 1,000 characters of 7062 words (28.25 pages) in the essay titled as i lie dying Addie Bundren - As the matriarch of the Bundren family, Addie is the absent protagonist of the novel. A former schoolteacher, she married Anse Bundren after a brief courtship and bore him four children: Cash, Darl, Dewey Dell and Vardaman. As the result of an affair with Whitfield, Addie is also mother to an illegitimate child, Jewel. At the outset of the novel, Addie is gravely ill, and dies soon thereafter. Her dying wish to be buried with her relatives in Jefferson, the capital of Yoknapatawpha County, provides the impetus for the novel s action.Anse Bundren - Anse, the patriarch of the Bundren family, is a poor farmer who feels duty-bound to honor his late wife s burial request. But his unhalting ambition to deliver Addie to rest in Jefferson at any cost and despite all hardships serves to cast doubt on both his intelligence and his motives. Upon finally arriving in Jefferson, Anse quickly makes good on his promise to Addie, and then proceeds to acquire a new set of false teeth and a second bride. Cash Bundren - The eldest of the Bundren children, Cash is an aspiring carpenter who occupies himself with the construction of his mother s coffin during her dying days. After previously enduring a broken leg when he fell from the roof of a church, he re-injures the same leg in the journey to bury Addie while attempting to cross a river with a wagon in the face of flood conditions. For the rest of the novel Cash is incapacitated, and as the result of a shoddy attempt to set h... |
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Keywords: addie, novel, anse, dewey dell, darl, impetus, matriarch, eldest, protagonist, journey, death of his mother, gravely ill, grief stricken, interior monologues, illegitimate child, cast doubt, flood conditions, dying days, dying wish, false teeth