the conflicting agendas within a 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"

corpse is buried, the daughter fails in her effort to get an

there. Even after Addie had been dead over a week, and

Eustace a farmhand of Mr. Snopes said. Anse steels Cash's

out of paying, he finally buys some new teeth and a new

saying that he spent his savings and Cash's money in the

to avoid a doctor's fee. Before she dies Addie requests to be buried in Jefferson.

Some common words found in the essay are:
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Approximate Word count = 612
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)