Quotes Characters Symbols Theme Viz Teachers and parents! Our Teacher Edition on As I Lay Dying makes teaching easy. Everything you need for every book you read. "Sooo much more helpful than SparkNotes. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive." Get LitCharts A + Previous Section Fifty-Two, narrated by Darl. Section Fifty-Three, narrated by Cash. Section Fifty-Four, narrated by Peabody. Section Fifty-Five, narrated by MacGowan. Section Fifty-Six, narrated by Vardaman. Section Fifty-Seven, narrated by Darl. Section Fifty-Eight, narrated by Dewey Dell. In this quote, Darl's poetic description details the family dysfunction as he describes the nonlinear family dynamics. He also gives a visual of the mules as they approach the river, more aware of the absurdity and danger of this situation than the family. "The reason for living was to get ready to stay dead for a long time." —Addie Bundren in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. William Faulkner's self-proclaimed masterpiece, As I Lay Dying, originally published in 1930, is a fascinating exploration of the many voices found in a Southern family and community.The novel's title—As I Lay Dying—invokes a first-person speaker, presumably the voice of As I Lay Dying Quotes. Quote 1: "Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart." Cora, p. 7. Quote 2: "The quilt is drawn up to her chin, hot as it is, with only her two hands and her face outside. She is propped on the pillow, with her head raised so she can see out the window, and we can hear him every time he takes A great memorable quote from the As I Lay Dying movie on Quotes.net - Dr. Peabody: [examining compound leg fracture] A man ain't so much different from a horse or a mule. Except maybe a horse or a mule might have a little more sense. This sort of stream of consciousness is about the only stylistic continuity between all fifteen narrators of As I Lay Dying. Faulkner personalizes the language and style used by each character, and of course each particular style tells us more about each particular character. Jewel is a man of few words, reminding us that he's a rugged man of The As I Lay Dying quotes below are all either spoken by Whitfield or refer to Whitfield. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one: ). 41. Whitfield Quotes Full Book Summary. Addie Bundren, the wife of Anse Bundren and the matriarch of a poor Southern family, is very ill, and is expected to die soon. Her oldest son, Cash, puts all of his carpentry skills into preparing her coffin, which he builds right in front of Addie's bedroom window. Although Addie's health is failing rapidly, two of her the title, As I Lay Dying, demonstrates Faulkner's eclectic tendency toward establishing the consciously plural pastiche genre2 built upon intertextuality or the co-presence of different texts within the borders of a single text. Accordingly, being constructed upon other texts, Faulkner's novel fits Roland Barthes definition of the JUKPd.