- writing in sections (language, personality)
- the focus
- care/worry
- personality
- What does it reveal about action?
- What does it reveal about other characters and themselves?
Darl
- more order and structure
- level-headed
- observant and sensitive
- articulate
- ponders his existence
- frustrated with the long, difficult process of taking Addie's body to Jefferson
- "thinks too much": thinks more than acts
- trapped artist
- antagonist
- sane or insane?
- thought Cash would have told him that he'd be shipped off
Jewel
- proud, fiercely independent
- tall, stick-like, wooden-eyes (lifeless)
- spoiled, hates when someone else has the attention
- wants control of events but unable to
- Jewel is mad because Cash is building Addie's coffin right in front of her
- He resents all of the attention Cash gets--thinks Cash is showing off
- Mom keeps close eye on him so he won't get married
- Mom's "favorite"?
- Separates himself from family...won't ride in wagon, takes horse
- acts without thinking through it
- passionate, brooding nature
- fierce dedication and protector of his mother
Cash
- selfless
- master carpenter
- perfectionist
- has a task
- very logical and rational thinking
- very exact and detailed
- tunnel-vision
- upset because coffin won't be balance because she's turned around the other way
- does what he must do
- fulfills his duty
- problem solver--thinks a lot about things
Dewey Dell
- the only Bundren daughter, 17 years old
- If the sack is full she'll have sex with Lafe in the secret shade
- found out that she is pregnant
- won't own up to what she decides or believes, FATE decides everything
- Darl finds out, which worries Dewey--doesn't want her dad to know
- uneducated, misspelling run-on sentences
- thinking and reasoning like a teenage girl
Vardaman
- very young
- thinks his mother is a fish
- tries to go to Vernon Tull's to turn back time because "he saw the fish too"
- gets neglected, traumatized--no one is explaining what happened
Anse
- overwhelmingly selfish
- hated and disrespected by his children
- 12 years since he's been to town
- something about him makes men want to help him
- lazy: doesn't want to work, doesn't want to work
Addie
- a former schoolteacher whose bitter, loveless life causes her to despise her husband
- invests all of her love in her favorite child, Jewel, rather than in the rest of her family or God.
- enjoys the abuse of schoolchildren...wants the children to be aware of her
- desires to mark them rather than inspire them...wants to perpetuate her existence [similar to Darl (?)]
- marries Anse simply because he came along
- desires to be alone--or to have possession
- wants to be buried apart from Anse and family
- has affair with Whitfield--gives birth to Jewel
- wants to see Whitfield sin
- Cora tries to talk to her about sin and redemption
- sees the hypocrisy of words and religion--words are empty
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