As Ai Lay Dying Setting Analysis
As ai Lay Dying by William Faulkner
In the novel, the characters tell the story by using an internal monologue and take turns giving their version of what happened during their mother’s death. The family lives in a part of the south and must make it to town to get the mother buried in a proper setting.
The actual setting of the story is based off of William Faulkner’s home town and places he grew up. He bases the characters from people he grew op around and the actions based on theirs as well.
In the beginning of the novel rain is mentioned enough to allow the reader to know there will be a cleansing soon, or at least something upsetting will happen within the story (It's More Than Just Rain or Snow). Addie's death is justified by the rain. …show more content…
They speak of how she would treat Jewel like, well, a jewel. She baked special treat for him, and made his siblings do his work. “And I knew that she was hating herself for that deceit and hating Jewel because she had to love him so that had to act the deceit.”(Darl 130-131). In reality she did not hate Jewel for her adulterous act. She just saw something different within him than her other children, which made her try and protect him as much as she could. Sadly Jewel did not view his mother the same way. In a way Jewel is a vampire according to How To Read Literature Like A Professor in the chapter Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires. He uses his mother's will to treat him differently to get the things he wants and does not care what the rest of the family thinks of him. The type of vampire Jewel would be is the kind that feeds on greed. He chooses a material object before his own mother’s will to have him with her, in her final moments. Dewey Dell’s characterization can be shown by her strong will to be by her mother’s side as she died. She fanned her and herself due to the heat of the season. She was pregnant and sought “treatment” for her problem. Instead she was tricked and she is left in the same situation as earlier. Instead of crying about it, she believes the baby is gone and she feels stronger than earlier in the
In the novel, the characters tell the story by using an internal monologue and take turns giving their version of what happened during their mother’s death. The family lives in a part of the south and must make it to town to get the mother buried in a proper setting.
The actual setting of the story is based off of William Faulkner’s home town and places he grew up. He bases the characters from people he grew op around and the actions based on theirs as well.
In the beginning of the novel rain is mentioned enough to allow the reader to know there will be a cleansing soon, or at least something upsetting will happen within the story (It's More Than Just Rain or Snow). Addie's death is justified by the rain. …show more content…
They speak of how she would treat Jewel like, well, a jewel. She baked special treat for him, and made his siblings do his work. “And I knew that she was hating herself for that deceit and hating Jewel because she had to love him so that had to act the deceit.”(Darl 130-131). In reality she did not hate Jewel for her adulterous act. She just saw something different within him than her other children, which made her try and protect him as much as she could. Sadly Jewel did not view his mother the same way. In a way Jewel is a vampire according to How To Read Literature Like A Professor in the chapter Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires. He uses his mother's will to treat him differently to get the things he wants and does not care what the rest of the family thinks of him. The type of vampire Jewel would be is the kind that feeds on greed. He chooses a material object before his own mother’s will to have him with her, in her final moments. Dewey Dell’s characterization can be shown by her strong will to be by her mother’s side as she died. She fanned her and herself due to the heat of the season. She was pregnant and sought “treatment” for her problem. Instead she was tricked and she is left in the same situation as earlier. Instead of crying about it, she believes the baby is gone and she feels stronger than earlier in the