Summary . Darl begins the novel with a short but telling section. He and Jewel are walking up to the house. On the walk, Darl mentions the heat, Jewel's "pale eyes like wood," Tull's wagon, and the box that Cash is making for Addie. Notes . Faulkner uses Darl's first section to situate him as a reliable, straightforward narrator.Abstract. While William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying can be viewed as a literary experiment in modernist techniques. However, it can also be considered as a novel that examines its characters Suggestions for essay topics to use when you're writing about As I Lay Dying. Search all of SparkNotes Search. Suggestions. Use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. As You Like It Don Quixote Payment Summary. SparkNotes Plus . You'll be billed after your free trial ends. 7-Day Free Trial. Not Applicable. Renews December 24
Lesson Summary As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner William Faulkner published As I Lay Dying in 1930. The novel is considered a tour-de-force, a triumphant display of skill.
Activity 1. Burying Addie's Voice. This activity explores Addie, the central character of the text. The novel's title— As I Lay Dying —invokes a first-person speaker, presumably the voice of the dead mother, Addie Bundren. Yet she only speaks once in the novel, and she is dead, not dying, throughout most of the novel (aside from the
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time. From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by William Faulkner—also available are Snopes, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and Selected Short Stories. One of William Faulkner's finest novels, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, remains a
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