![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through multiple points of view and interior monologues, the novel reveals both the secret desires and problems of the Bundren family and the way that the Bundrens are viewed by others. On a nightmarish journey, they manage to cross a flooded river and save Addie’s putrifying body from a fire, and they succeed in laying her body to rest in town. A poor farming family from northern Mississippi, the Bundrens lay Addie’s body in a homemade coffin, load her in a mule-driven wagon, and set out for Jefferson in the heat of the summer. Addie Bundren dies, leaving her husband and five children to fulfill her request that she be buried forty miles away, in Jefferson, with her people. Despite its formal complexity, the underlying situation and narrative of As I Lay Dying is actually quite simple. ![]()
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