You might not expect to laugh at the image of a dead women’s corpse falling from a casket into a river-but you will.įaulkner used multiple narratives, each with his or her own interests and biases, to create a puzzle that readers could piece together the "true" circumstances of the story. We hear from everyone involved in the journey, including Addie from the grave-a testament to Faulkner’s creation of an environment so believable that such outrageousness is allowed. And so, upon her death, her family, for the most part begrudgingly, follows through with her wish. As her last wish, she requests that her husband bury her among her family in the town of Jefferson. She feels her husband is worthless, her neighbors overly-religious and annoying, and of all her children, she only loves her son Jewel. She is a proud, bitter woman who is ready to die. Friends and family members gather to help ease her pain and to prepare for her funeral. In this particular novel, Addie Bundren, the wife and mother to a poor white farm family, is on her deathbed.
As I Lay Dying uses thirteen narrators to explore the many voices found in a Southern family and community.
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