As I Lay Dying is told by fifteen different narrators over the course of fifty-nine narrative sections. The first section belongs to Darl Bundren, who introduces us to his brothers Cash and Jewel and his dying mother, Addie. The Bundrens live on a rural farm in Mississippi in the 1920s. As I Lay Dying Major Characters. Addie Bundren: Addie Bundren, the matriarch of the Bundren family dies at the beginning of the novel, sparking the journey to Jefferson. She wishes to be buried with her family in the city and therefore causes the week and a half journey to Jefferson. She is an unhappy woman during her life, who believes that Swift's novel - which, in its central plot, gently echoed William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and, in its structure, offered a more systematic homage to Faulkner's masterpiece - was denounced as Spoiler-Free Summary of As I Lay Dying 'As I Lay Dying' is a classic American novel that's set in Mississippi, specifically Yoknapatawpha County, close to where the author grew up. It follows the Bundren family as they bring their mother's corpse to Jefferson, the town she wished to be buried. By TredynasDays, BLOGCRITICS.ORG July 26, 2013. Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in six weeks while working nights at a power plant. It was his seventh novel, published in 1930 when he was 33 (he Section One, narrated by Darl. Darl returns with his brother Jewel from the fields. Darl is a full head shorter, which might be an age tip-off. They approach a cottonhouse. Jewel walks rigidly, walking through the cottonhouse windows while Darl circles the path. .

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