Addie Bundren
Submitted by kylet09 on October 8, 2007
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An Interpretation From Inside the Casket
Addie’s chapter shows us the undiluted innerworkings of the mother who is at the core of the Bundren family predicament. The novel, As I Lay Dying is written by William Faulkner, takes place in the American South in the 1800’s. It is an account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their mother and wife. The novel is told between each character. Addie’s voice is expressed through Cora Tull’s memories and through her own brief section in the narrative. For the majority of the novel, Addie is deceased, although she does have one monologue in which she enlightens the reader of her perspective to life and her family. Faulkner strategically reveals through Addie’s monologue, her forlorn marriage to Anse, her affair, and her feelings about birth, all awhile she is dead in her casket...