Dewey Dell's Motherhood
Dewey Dell Bundren Dewey Dell is Addie and Anse fourth child and only daughter. In the beginning of the novel she had sexual experience with Lafe that led her pregnant at seventeen. For Dewey Dell being pregnant was not easy especially since her mother had just died and she was the only girl in the family. She had felt alone and had no one to talk to about her pregnancy. Throughout the novel Dewey Dell's main concern is the abortion. Dewey Dell had the responsibility as any girl in her time period which was cooking and cleaning for her family. But being a pregnant single mother was not okay at the time. Lafe agreed of not having the child as well and gave her money for her to abort the baby. She had gone to a pharmacy at Mottson asking