The novel opens with Addie Bundren who we find out is dying. She tells her husband she wants to be buried in Jefferson, and as normal loyal husband would do; Anse felt it was his duty to fulfill his wife?s request. In reality, Anse is a poor farmer with five children to take care of and a wife who is in charge of the house. We tend to feel sorry for him because of his laziness and his urge to talk about two measly topics, a farmer?s life and complete nonsense. His character seems weak, yet he makes the major decisions around the house. Addie worked as a schoolteacher before getting married to Anse. She hated her pupils. During her teaching career she would sit and contemplate the hate she felt for little children. She simply d

"When school was out and the last one had left with his dirty snuffling nose, instead of going home, I would go down a hill to the spring where I could be quiet and hate them".

The whole marriage with Anse was not a serious situation. It was an odd courtship that happened to occur. Anse saw her, asked her to marry him, she accepted and they were wed. That just proves why their relationship ended up being the way it was. Anse did not spend time to get to know her, nor did he even mention the thought of children to her. Their connection seems distant and probably was from the time they met. They knew nothing about each other at all. If he had known she did not want children, he would not have married her and if she knew how lazy and useless he was she would not have married him. Their relationship seems to be one of relationship with a master and his slave and a baby-making machine. Addie knew that from the beginning it was not something she wanted, but she went through with it. Once she had her first child Cash, she realized how much she despises her life.

id not like them and she had wished they would just disappear.

Addie spent her days working and pouring her sweat and blood into the wellbeing of the family and the housework while Anse lazed around doing completely nothing. Even as a farmer he was not successful. His laziness forbid him from getting up and doing something if not for his family then at least for him. The most significance Anse had in his wife?s life was producing children. That was the only time they bonded as people. Maybe not only because Anse wanted children but because Addie knew how he could not survive by himself with all this hardship that she thought it was her duty to give him these children so that they could take care of him if she had left or died. Anse spends his life with Addie for the wrong

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Approximate Word count = 1248
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)