"As I lay dying the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyelids for me as I descended into Hades." While touching on the Greek classics I will mention that this novel reminds of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, the story of a sisters repeated attempts to bury her brother. Leaving ancient Greece we find ourselves in late 1920s Mississippi Abstract. While William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying can be viewed as a literary experiment in modernist techniques. However, it can also be considered as a novel that examines its characters
Activity 1. Burying Addie's Voice. This activity explores Addie, the central character of the text. The novel's title— As I Lay Dying —invokes a first-person speaker, presumably the voice of the dead mother, Addie Bundren. Yet she only speaks once in the novel, and she is dead, not dying, throughout most of the novel (aside from the

William Faulkner's self-proclaimed masterpiece, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, is a fascinating exploration of the many voices found in a Southern family and community.The following lesson examines the novel's use of multiple voices in its narrative: "[Faulkner] often told his stories using multiple narratives, each with their own interests and biases, who allow us to piece

E.L. Doctorow. E.L. Doctorow is the author most recently of All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories, which appeared last year. His essay in this issue will appear in different form as the introduction to a new edition of As I Lay Dying, to be published by Modern Library in May. . (May 2012) Dewey Dell preoccupies herself once again with thoughts of her potential pregnancy, referring to herself as a "little tub of guts." She thinks of how much Peabody could help her in an ideal and unrealistic world. She claims, "I would let him come in between me and Lafe, like Darl did." Dewey Dell is distracted by the sound of Cash 's saw, but complies with her father's request to make dinner. 3YMaiI.
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