(Turner, pp. 5-11).
Acting as one of the most significant characters in the novel, Jewel is perceived as the mysterious, overpowering, and dynamic character. As put by Carl Gustav Jung, Jewel is analogous to the Shadow archetype, which represents as the inherited animal-like instincts of man, and also serves as man's evolutionary development. Jewel is very special to his mother Addie, and although both love one another, neither can show this emotion in open situations. He can only express his love in deep-rooted violent acts, just like when he visualizes:.
It would just be me and her on a high hill and me rolling the rocks down the hill at their faces, picking them up and throwing them down the hill faces and teeth and all by God until she was quiet and not that goddamn adze going One lick less.
Two colors also connected with Jewel; the colors red and green. The red stands for the precious ruby, and the green stands for the rare and beautiful emerald. Since Jewel is an unusual person, his face reflects the different shades connected to his name. "Jewel looks back at the water, his face gritted, going red and green and then red." Jewel actually has many symbolic relationships, but the spotted horse is the most momentous. Faulkner uses both animalistic tendencies of the Shadow archetype and mythological connotation of the Mother principle to represent the horse. It corresponds to Jewel as being a young man of explosive and dangerous action. He also has strong emotions, as when he saves Addie's body from the burning building, ".he appears to be enclosed in a thin nimbus of fire." (Turner, pp. 23-29).
Darl Bundren takes the place as the Wise Man, according to Carl Jung, representing age-old wisdom and knowledge. The Wise Man is personified as the spiritual principle and supernatural meaning, which can both only be found in the psychic experience of man. In this sense, Darl is like a sage and prophet to the rest of the family.