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As I Lay Dying

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As I Lay Dying	comment	As I Lay Dying is a 1930 novel by William Faulkner. It's arguably among the least Mind Screw-like and most comprehensible of his works, and thus a good starting point.The basic plotline: Addie Bundren, the matriarch of the Bundren family, has died and expressed a wish to be buried in her hometown, Jefferson. Her husband Anse and children Cash, Darl, Jewel, Dewey Dell and Vardaman comply — although in many characters' cases, for not-entirely-altruistic reasons — pack up the corpse and go. This being a Faulkner novel, of course, things go wrong. Very wrong.A film adaptation, directed by and starring James Franco, was released in 2013.
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As I Lay Dying / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
As I Lay Dying / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Darl. Hardly ever does Darl display any emotion. He doesn't even become emotional as he narrates the event of Addie being placed in her coffin.
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As I Lay Dying / int_1da5941e	type	The Quiet One
As I Lay Dying / int_1da5941e	comment	The Quiet One: Cash.
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As I Lay Dying / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
As I Lay Dying / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: It's Faulkner, what do you expect?
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As I Lay Dying / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
As I Lay Dying / int_23781532	comment	Jewel, because he is Addie's most beloved. It's also an Ironic Name, as he's not exactly a "jewel" as far as personality goes.
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As I Lay Dying / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
As I Lay Dying / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Cash.
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As I Lay Dying / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
As I Lay Dying / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Each chapter starts with a verse from the KJV Bible; one of the chapters has a malaproperism of Proverbs 3:12, which is also cited in Hebrews 12:6.
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As I Lay Dying / int_312c2b80	type	One-Paragraph Chapter
As I Lay Dying / int_312c2b80	comment	One-Paragraph Chapter: "My mother is a fish." Similarly, there's a later chapter consisting of Cash's two-line winding thought that the coffin wasn't balanced properly, ending as suddenly as it begins as he realizes no one is "listening" to him.
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As I Lay Dying / int_32e279c4	type	Humans Are Flawed
As I Lay Dying / int_32e279c4	comment	Humans Are Flawed: Where to start, to begin almost no one in the family actually cares about the body they're carrying.
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As I Lay Dying / int_493bc214	type	Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
As I Lay Dying / int_493bc214	comment	Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie: The entire plot, being driven by Anse Bundren's attempt to return his wife's body to her family graveyard, through a rainstorm. Though rather unusually, Addie requested this specifically because she wanted the journey there to destroy her family.
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As I Lay Dying / int_49b1fe0	type	Beige Prose
As I Lay Dying / int_49b1fe0	comment	Beige Prose: "My mother is a fish." This also applies to Cash's sections before he replaces Darl as the objective narrator.
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As I Lay Dying / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
As I Lay Dying / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Oh Anse, you Jerkass, you.
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As I Lay Dying / int_53d45fa8	type	Back-Alley Doctor
As I Lay Dying / int_53d45fa8	comment	Back-Alley Doctor: Skeet MacGowan, but blatantly without the "doctor" part.
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As I Lay Dying / int_55fa41e2	type	NietzscheWannabe
As I Lay Dying / int_55fa41e2	comment	Nietzsche Wannabe: Darl has his moments, but Addie takes the cake.
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As I Lay Dying / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
As I Lay Dying / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: What happens to Darl over the course of the novel, eventually resulting in his being institutionalized.
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As I Lay Dying / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
As I Lay Dying / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Jewel, because he is Addie's most beloved. It's also an Ironic Name, as he's not exactly a "jewel" as far as personality goes. Bundren sounds similar to burden, which the family certainly is, to themselves, and to everyone else.
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As I Lay Dying / int_74c3078d	type	TheRashomon
As I Lay Dying / int_74c3078d	comment	The Rashomon: As I Lay Dying features fifteen different narrators. The majority of the narration comes from the Bundrens, sans Jewel and Addie who only narrate one section of their own.
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As I Lay Dying / int_787c6068	type	My Significance Sense Is Tingling
As I Lay Dying / int_787c6068	comment	My Significance Sense Is Tingling: Darl is clairvoyant. Darl narrates the moment of Addie's passing when he isn't even in the room. He also knows that Jewel is Addie's illegitimate son and that Dewey Dell is pregnant.
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As I Lay Dying / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
As I Lay Dying / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Jewel is Addie's favorite largely because he isn't Anse's son. It's a bit more nuanced in the novel, but that's the gist.
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As I Lay Dying / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
As I Lay Dying / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Addie, in one chapter. Sort of.
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As I Lay Dying / int_a536f3a3	type	Gender-Blender Name
As I Lay Dying / int_a536f3a3	comment	Gender-Blender Name: Jewel is male, not female.
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As I Lay Dying / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
As I Lay Dying / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: The whole plot, but subverted in that most of the characters are just using it as an excuse.
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As I Lay Dying / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
As I Lay Dying / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Nothing bad ever happens to Anse, despite some underhanded things he did. MacGowan too, who gets away with raping Dewel Dell.
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As I Lay Dying / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
As I Lay Dying / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Among others: Cash: "It don't bother me none" Jewel: "Goddamn you" and "Shut up, Darl!" Darl: "Jewel's mother is a horse" Vardaman: "My mother is a fish" Kate: "She oughta take them cakes"
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As I Lay Dying / int_b6cc7fc0	type	Dysfunctional Family
As I Lay Dying / int_b6cc7fc0	comment	Dysfunctional Family: All Anse cares about is getting new teeth and a new wife, most people think Darl is weird because he's clairvoyant, Jewel is angry about everything, and Vardaman thinks his mother is a fish. Dewey Dell is slightly less dysfunctional than the aforementioned, though she does have a slightly incomprehensible dream where she couldn't feel anything, even the fact that she was a woman, except for the cool wind blowing across her naked body. All things considered, Cash seems rather normal, though he obsessed over creating the coffin.
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As I Lay Dying / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
As I Lay Dying / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Anse doesn't care about anyone but himself. Special mention should go to his reaction to his son Cash being horribly injured.
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As I Lay Dying / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
As I Lay Dying / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Jewel. Despite being a bastard, he's the only one of the Bundrens with completely good intentions and the one who cares the most about Addie.
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As I Lay Dying / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
As I Lay Dying / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Not as much as Faulkner's other works, but still; especially concerning Darl and Addie. In Section 30, Dewey Dell describes a nightmare she had where she could not feel anything, even the fact that she was a girl, and then she felt a "they" beneath her that was "like a piece of cool silk dragged across [her] legs." It's really a metaphor for her repressed sexuality.
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As I Lay Dying / int_c4c9bb40	type	Inner Monologue
As I Lay Dying / int_c4c9bb40	comment	Inner Monologue: Of most of the characters, including Addie's corpse (maybe)
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As I Lay Dying / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
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As I Lay Dying / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
As I Lay Dying / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: Cora Tull. Contrast Vernon Tull, who's actually a pretty decent guy.
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As I Lay Dying / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
As I Lay Dying / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Anse, if you believe that he acts stupid and useless on purpose so that he never has to work a day in his life. He even ends up getting a new wife, along with his new set of teeth, at Jefferson so that he has a new set of hands to replace Addie. Addie, whose burial in Jefferson was specifically requested in order to destroy her family.
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As I Lay Dying / int_e49686	type	The Hero
As I Lay Dying / int_e49686	comment	The Hero: Darl, the only one who understands that Addie was a loveless, cruel individual who only wants to be taken to Jefferson out of revenge, and so he tries to bury her as quickly as possible, first in the river, then in the fire.
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As I Lay Dying / int_ea35fda5	type	Bastard Bastard
As I Lay Dying / int_ea35fda5	comment	Bastard Bastard: Jewel
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As I Lay Dying / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
As I Lay Dying / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Jerkass: It's easier to list the characters who aren't. For one, Anse cares for no one in the entire family.
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