As I Lay Dying

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Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

"My aloneness had been violated...by time, by love, by Anse"(172). With these words, Addie Bundren describes a common theme in the South. Many women become trapped in an unsatisfactory life, and then drained, both physically and emotionally, by the people in their environment. In As I Lay Dying (1930), William Faulkner creates Addie and this theme of the novel through imagery, figurative language, and details, both before and after she dies.

From the day she decides to "take Anse" (170) as her husband, Addie begins her lifelong journey of losing herself. That day, Addie realizes that "my aloneness had to be violated over and over each day," (172) until the day that she dies. After sh



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Approximate Word count = 494
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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