The money her child’s father gives her is given to Anse for his new teeth. Dewey Dell is pregnant and needs to go to Jefferson for an abortion. The daughter of the family, Dewey Dell, is a humble yet unintelligent young woman who is incapable of forming educated thoughts. Anse’s reasons for going to Jefferson are less about Addie and more about getting fitted for a new set of teeth and also to find a new wife. Addie’s selfish husband Anse starts preparing for their trip to Jefferson. The novel tells the story of the long and arduous journey the Bundren family takes to bury Addie Bundren, the mother of the family, 40 miles away in Jefferson as her last dying wish.There are 59 sections in the book, each narrated in the perspectives of different characters.Īs the novel begins, Addie Bundren lays in her bedroom dying, as her eldest son Cash builds her coffin right outside. Like in many of his works, "As I Lay Dying" is also set in Yoknapatawpha County, a made-up county based on his hometown in Mississippi. It is one of Faulkner’s most famous masterpieces along with "The Sound and the Fury and Light in August." William Faulkner is considered one of the 20th century’s greatest writers and wrote his novel "As I Lay Dying," in his weeks while working at a power plant.
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