Faulkner chose an approach not usually used by many authors. He let the

story be told through the eyes of 14 characters. This approach doesn't

give you a narrator to "lean" on and the reader is forced to make their

own conclusions about the events in the novel. It is the reader's

responsibility to in a sense choose the best narrator and to judge the rest

from there. Some narrators such as Cora Tull can be almost discounted

in most cases because her perception of people is almost always wrong.

Darl is the most active narrator with the perceptiveness which he has.

Sometimes he is even able to tell what happens when it turns out that he

is not even there. It might be said that Darl is closest to Faulkner himself.

Surprisingly Cash is the character to close the novel, who up until the end

had the least sections of the Bundren family. Cash's narratives are given

in the past tense, almost from a perspective of distance and

He says, "....then I found that girl looking at me. If her eyes had a been

feel are rarely what we say or do. In the book often times little is said

put the Bundrens up for the night he felt Dewey Dell's eyes fixed on him.

often hostile. Dewey Dell has a lustful look in her eyes. Darl has a look

the beginning of the novel. This look is connected very closely with the

which this family has to overcome to bury their dead mother and wife. I

environment around him. This separation makes others around him think

of knowing. Darl seems to have the power to observe and explain the

pistols, I wouldn't be talking right now. I be dog if they didn't blaze at

family. They show the ironic lack of morals that this family has. Faulkner

bedside when she is dying. He also knows that Cash knows Jewel's secret

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Approximate Word count = 691
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)