... the trip for the three-dollar load and risk not being there when Addie dies. Another instance of the narrator's subjective view comes when Dewey Dell encounters Vardaman in the milking shed. ""You durn little sneak!" My hands shake him hard "I ain't done nothing""(62). The two characters in ... this dialogue are so concerned with their own innocence that they become confused about what is actually happening. Dewey Dell becomes angry because she believes originally that Vardaman is Lafe, and when she discovers that he is not, she thinks that Vardaman must have been ... spying on her. Va...

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... by feet in fading precision. Though he had these visions, Darl was never cherished by his brothers and sister because of his penetrating mind. Dewey Dell hated him because of him knowing about her pregnancy, and Jewel cursed when Darl asked him about his real father. "Your mother was a horse ... he is finally taken to the insane asylum, it is because of a mystical and eternal misunderstanding. (Turner, pp. 33-40) The goddess of fecundity, Dewey Dell, "is often associated with things and places standing for fertility and fruitfulness: the cornucopia, a plowed field, a garden," according to...

• Word Count: 1564
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... important. The children are: Cash, the first-born carpenter; Darl, the eccentric son sent to an asylum; Jewel, the child of Addie's affair; Dewey Dell, the pregnant unwed daughter; and Vardaman, the youngest and most confused of them all. The plot is almost incidental to the book; the real jewels of ... dying, just as the mules don't realize that they are dead and not touching the earth. The cow in the story represents Dewey Dell's pregnancy. Cows are docile creatures that constantly produce milk--the stereotypical mother. When the cow continually tries to nudge or get Dewey's attention,...

• Word Count: 2124
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

... . Vardaman action was quite extreme when he tried to chase the doctor away because Vardaman is quite irrational in not understanding that Dr. Peabody did not kill his mother. Dewey Dell, Addie's daughter, is deprived of a central motherly figure. Addie's action in not caring enough for her daughter leads her to become irresponsible with Lafe where Lafe impregnates Dewey ... Dell. Darl, one of Addie's least favorites, is rejected by his mother which "injured him psychologically" and led him to burn the barn where Addie's coffin lay resting in peace (Wadlington ... . Vardaman seems to for...

• Word Count: 1340
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School