The Nature of a Crazy Family in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying :: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

The Nature of a Crazy Family in Faulkners As I Lay DyingMy mother is a angle. (p. 79)I gestate that this statement typifies the entire family. There is just aboutthing non-quite-right about all of them. Vardeman, as Cora Tull says on page 70, is outen his head with grief and worry for his mother. He has confused her with the fish because they both died on the same day. In his childs mind he can non scar between the two. Throughout the novel he refers to his mother as a fish, as on page 196. In this scene, he is looking at the vultures that have gathered over the wagon. Darl and Cash are trying to wee Cashs broken leg situated better for the rest of the ride. Vardeman thinks that his mother is not in the box. My mother does not smell like that. My mother is a fish. Darl is slowly going crazy. He is referred to as being queer, lazy, pottering about the bulge no better than Anse on page 24. However, his true madness is not shown until his monologue at the end of the novel after he has been arrested for burn the barn. Cash believes he did so to try to rid them of Addies body, but Darl never reveals his motivations. In his final section he seems to be looking in on himself. He refers to his body as Darl, and he asks himself What are you express feelings at? All the answer he conk outs is Yes yes yes yes yes (253).Dewey Dell is obsessed with charge and her unwanted pregnancy. Every man that looks at her she looks at with her eyes mixed bag of blaring up and going hard like they had made to speck her as she does with Tull on page 124. Even in trying to get rid of the fetus, however, she is confronted with sex. She is none the wiser to the wiles of the doctor until afterwards when she says, It wont pass water . . . I just know it wont (252).Jewel has some less-than-healthy fascination with his horse. While he frequently beats it about the head, he still refers to it as a sweet son of a holler (13). He was willing to work all wickedness every night for weeks in order to buy the horse, and he disappears for a while when Anse barters it for the in the raw team.