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The real anse bundren

            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 before I realized he was going four miles out of his way"(170). Anse even worked hard on a house that he built with his own hands and he is now ready for a family. Addie say that she "took" Anse and now they have a kid and are living good. Anse seems to have it all going for him he now has a new family and some land so he should be set for the rest of his life.
             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 .
             not a pretty sight. By the description of Anse's body now it seems that time has taken a toll on his body. It almost seems as a beastly transformation from a young hardworking man to an old humped back man who is lazy and doesn't do much around the house.


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