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A 5 page analysis of William Faulkner's novel 'As I Lay Dying,' which concentrates on the character of Addie, the mother of the Bundren family that dies at the beginning of the novel. The writer argues that root causes of this family's dysfunction come from the restrictive societal definition of femininity. No additional sources cited.
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the works by Faulkner, do not list a short story or novel by Faulkner entitled simply "Addie" so I assume that this is the work that you mean. As
the novel opens, Addie is in her home in rural Mississippi. She is dying. Neighbors come to visit her as?outside--her oldest son, Cash, is sawing and hammering together her coffin.
This rather surreal opening sets the pace for a surreal, psychologically oriented novel that explores the ramifications of the societal stance that womens sexuality should be completely defined according to
their role in procreation. Using a stream-of-consciousness narration that allows the reader to see the narrative through at least a dozen perspectives, as it switches from one character to the
next, Faulkner makes some profound statements about what it was like to be a woman, a mother and a wife in the South in the early part of the twentieth
century. He does this via a journey that is undertaken by Addies family after her death. Years ago, after the birth of her son Darl, Addie asked that when
she died her husband, Anse, should take her body back to Jefferson, her home town?that she wished to be buried there. Even after her death, Addie exerts control over her
family because they seek--by fulfilling her last wish--to somehow make a connection with her that they could not during her lifetime. This was because Addie was a bitter woman, alienated
from life by the requirements of society, which had little or nothing to do with her own longings and desires. In Addie, Faulkner paints a picture of a woman
who belies the accepted convention of that era that biology was destiny and that all women were meant to be fulfilled as mothers. The 1920s and 30s had strict ideas
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