Dec 24, 2009

As I Lay Dying | As I Lay Dying

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Author: William Faulkner
First Published: 1930
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Psychological realism
Time of Work: Early twentieth century
Setting: Mississippi
Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
Subjects: Family or family life, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Death or dying, Storms, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Life and death, Mortality
Locales: Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County (fictive)

Characters Discussed

Anse Bundren, an ignorant and poor white man. When his wife dies, he is determined to take her body to Jefferson, as he had promised, even though the town is forty miles away. In a rickety old wagon, he and his sons must get across a flooded river that has destroyed most of the nearby bridges. Ostensibly, the shiftless and unlucky man is burying his wife there because of the promise. After a long trip with her unembalmed corpse, now dead more than a week, he arrives in Jefferson, pursued by a flock of buzzards that, like a grim chorus, hang apparently...

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As I Lay Dying | As I Lay Dying

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