William Faulkner's greatest novels, As I lay Dying, the character's selfishness

is revealed. As I Lay Dying is a detailed account of the Bundren's family trek

across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As Addie is dying, all

the characters go through a different state of emotions, all of which are

explained in fifty-nine chapters. An analysis of William Faulkner's As I Lay

Dying reveals the importance of goals, mishaps, and characters as they look on

the death of Addie. During the initial stage after Addie's death three main goals

are exposed: burying her, getting new teeth for Anse, and getting an abortion

for Dewey Dell. According to George Wolfe, "Addie's section is narrated in

tense, cryptic, and expository prose because Addie is a person who has tried to

solve some of the basic problems of life and has failed" (203). To Cash, his

mother is his world, and he does not realize she dies because he is t

her mom. She, like her father, only goes to Jefferson County for personal

and incomplete without Addie. Warren remarks, "Anger, hatred, jealousy,

reasons. She can never think of one thing for a long time; her mind jumps from

was his mother's favorite child. Dewey Dell, the only girl, was never close to

interactions of the unusual members. A critic remarks "Faulkner the humanistic

buries Addie. As I Lay Dying is a unique novel, based on the lives of an odd

all around. Last, Vardamanm who is the youngest child was not born out of

loyalty, reverence, fear- Faulkner creates a panorama as he presents the

to Jefferson County to bury their loved one, the family makes it together and

alternate bridge, this event turns out to be a major mistake, because regardless

and a fire, which temporarily keep the family from being able to bury their

whole, although Vardaman has a harder time, while Dewey Dell is anxious for

aspects of the dysfunctional family that Faulkner depicts an

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