Pointless Acts of Heroism. As I Lay Dying is filled with moments of great heroism and with struggles that are almost epic, but the novel's take on such battles is ironic at best, and at times it even makes them seem downright absurd or mundane. The Bundrens' effort to get their wagon across the flooded river is a struggle that could have
Addie Bundren Quotes. Maybe it will reveal her blindness to her, laying there at the mercy and the ministration of four men and a tom-boy girl. "There's not a women in this section could ever bake with Addie Bundren," I say. . . . Under the quilt she makes no more than a hump than a rail would, and the only way you can tell she is
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Analysis. Tull goes home and tells Cora about the Bundrens' wagon fiasco at the river. She thinks both that the hand of God brought the log to the river, and that Anse is at fault. As Addie explains in her chapter, Cora's way of invoking God in service of judging others reveals the potential hypocrisy of religion that is a theme throughout the
Shortly after Addie's death, the Bundren children seize on animals as symbols of their deceased mother. Vardaman declares that his mother is the fish he caught. Darl asserts that Jewel's mother is his horse. Dewey Dell calls the family cow a woman as she mulls over her pregnancy only minutes after she has lost Addie, her only female relative.
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