family tear it apart. Every member of the family is to a degree responsible for what goes

wrong, but none more than Anse. Anse's laziness and selfishness are the underlying

factors to every disaster in the book. As the critic Andre Bleikasten agrees, "there is

scarcely a character in Faulkner so loaded with faults and vices" (84). At twenty-two

Anse becomes sick from working in the sun after which he refuses to work claiming he

will die if he ever breaks a sweat again. Anse becomes lazy, and turns Addie into a baby

factory in order to have children to do all the work. Addie is inbittered by this, and is

never the same. Anse is begrudging of everything. Even the cost of a doctor for his dying

wife seems money better spent on false teeth to him. "I never sent for you" Anse says "I

corpse is buried, the daughter fails in her effort to get an abortion, one son is badly

necessary to drive the wagon across the river, he proves himself to be undeniably lazy as

of Chicago Press, 1975. William, Faulkner. As I Lay Dying. New York: Random House,

one thinking what can they do for me.

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