As I Lay Dying - Conflicting Agendas

William Faulkner\'s As I Lay Dying is a fable about how the conflicting agendas within a family tear it apart. all member of the family is to a degree responsible for what goes wrong, but none more than Anse. Anse\'s laziness and selfishness are the underlying factors to every disaster in the book. As the critic Andre Bleikasten agrees, \"there is scarcely a character in Faulkner so loaded with faults and vices\" (84). At twenty-two Anse becomes sick from works in the sun after which he refuses to work claiming he allow die if he ever breaks a sweat again. Anse becomes lazy, and turns Addie into a bollix up factory in order to have children to do all the work. Addie is inbittered by this, and is ne'er the same. Anse is begrudging of everything. heretofore the cost of a doctor for his dying married woman seems money better spent on false teeth to him. \"I never sent for you\" Anse says \"I take you to witness I never sent for you\" (37) he repeats trying to avoid a doctor\'s fee. in advance she dies Addie requests to be buried in Jefferson. When she does, Anse appears obsessed with burying her there.



Even after Addie had been dead over a week, and all of the bridge over to Jefferson are washed out, he is still determined to get to Jefferson. Is Anse unreserved in wanting to fulfill his promise to Addie, or is he driven by another motive? Anse plays \"to perfection the case of the grief-stricken widower\" (Bleikasten 84) while secretly thinking entirely of getting another wife and false teeth in Jefferson. When it becomes needed to drive the wagon crosswise the river, he proves himself to be undeniably lazy as he makes Cash, Jewel, and Darl drive the wagon across while he walks over the bridge, a spectator. Anse is also contumacious; he could have borrowed a team of mules from Mr. Armstid, but he insists that Addie would not have wanted it... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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