Addeddate 2015-05-11 06:34:33 Identifier AsILayDyingFullTextWILLIAMFAULKNER Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t20c8cz5p Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ppi 300 Scanner Anse Bundren. Anse is Addie's husband and father to Cash, Darl, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman. He narrates sections 9, 26, and 28. Anse is a lazy man. We know as much because most of his neighbors tell us so and because time and time again we see him acting this way. It is Cash and Jewel who almost drown in the river trying to get the wagon and Faulkner's 1930 novel 'As I Lay Dying' uses narration to create a novel not based on a plot of action, but of characters. Faulkner's experiment with narrative and stream of consciousness technique confronts the importance of narration in and outside literature. The book is encapsulated with the unreliability of narration as well as the constructive nature of literature. Faulkner explores Darl passes Cash without engaging with him and walks into their house. Darl similarly emphasizes Cash's uninterrupted attention toward completing Addie's coffin, revealing Cash's inner nature as a careful, pragmatic, and detail oriented craftsman, as well as his role in the family as a man of great charity and self-sacrifice. 2. The letter "X" represents the simplest form of chiasmus, as the second stroke forming the letter is a perfect inversion of the first stroke. In As I Lay Dying, the most chiastic element is the inversion of the characters' attitudes after Addie's death. Whereas Darl's brothers and sister climb out of an initial period of grief into an William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life.A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest .

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