William Faulkner wrote about suffering in the book As I Lay Dying. Suffering was felt by all the in the Bundren Family ranging from Anse to Vardaman. There are two things that can happen after suffering one is learning from the situation and the other is letting the situation take control and giving up. Suffering was suffered the most by cash because he changed for the worst and now is a lazy person who doesn’t do anything.
His late wife Addie describes Anse as a nice sweet young man, when Addie recalls him in her section as saying, “I looked up that day and saw Anse standing there in his Sunday clothes”(170). That’s telling us that Anse was a good wholesome kid who tried his hardest to get Addie to notice him she says, “I saw him pass the school house three or four times bef
There is another Anse that is in the book and that is the present day Anse who is lazy and just sits on the porch all day. He isn’t even the same young cute boy he used to be. The hump in his back that was mentioned earlier in the book by Addie saying “he already looked like a tall bird hunched over in cold weather”(170). His son Darl says that “Pa’s feet are badly splayed, his toes cramped and bent and warped, with no toenail on any of his little toes”(11). He is also rubbing his knees and spitting all the time, which is
What Anse is suffering from is aging and the fact that he had a heat stroke when he was twenty-two that limits him from doing any kind of hard labor. Darl says that Anse tells everybody that, “if he sweats he will die”(17). It might be some truth
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