This is a character analysis on Addie Bundren in William Faulkner's "As I lay Dying."
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 03:52:39
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 5 pages (1491 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Controversial Issues
Length: 5 pages (1491 words)
As I Lay Dying and Decomposing
William Faulkner is one of the most published major American authors in the twentieth century. He uses many literary techniques that often times disorient the reader, but that is what makes his writing so unique. As I Lay Dying is a literary work with many voices and Faulkner's style seems to vary according to whichever character is narrating the section in his fifty-nine-section novel. The major technique that Faulkner …
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…with themselves with the language or words that they use. Addie sees this, even through her coffin. Her disillusionment with words and language starts at an early age with her father and she carries this feeling through her loveless marriage, the inconsequential raising of her children and even to her decomposing body as she enters her grave. Addie recognizes that the reason for living "was to get ready to stay dead a long time" (Faulkner 169).
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