There is no sweat stain on his shirt. I have never seen a sweat stain on his shirt. He was sick once from working in the sun when he was twenty-two years old, and he tells people that if he ever sweats, he will die. I suppose he believes it. Early in the novel, Darl introduces Anse Bundren as a character who shies away from hard work and Character Analysis in As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner has remained a fairly controversial and intriguing novel when it comes to analysis. It's "stream of consciousness" style, extensive amount of narrators, and fragmented format leave much available for differing analysis. With the overwhelming amount of narrators comes William Faulkner (born September 25, 1897, New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.—died July 6, 1962, Byhalia, Mississippi) American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.. Youth and early writings. As the eldest of the four sons of Murry Cuthbert and Maud Butler Falkner, William Faulkner (as he later spelled his name) was well aware of his family The concept of such a desired and completed journey of motherhood and womanhood is dismantled in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. On a spectrum of maternity, characters Cora Tull, Addie Bundren and her daughter Dewey Dell each represent a different degree. Cora is a dedicated mother, Addie struggles to accept the idea of motherhood, and As I Lay Dying . by William Faulkner and "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor. While a variety of authors have studied the genre of southern gothic fiction, there is almost no scholarly work that directly examined the writings of both William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor in relation to As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner. William Faulkner published As I Lay Dying in 1930. The novel is considered a tour-de-force, a triumphant display of skill. Written over the course of eight The most obvious connection between As I Lay Dying and the. vegetation myth is that the mythical deities represent the processes of vegetation and fertility and can be closely identified with the natural. world; furthermore, the people in the novel are farmers whose liveli. hood depends on the productivity of the soil. Cash Bundren. Jewel is the bastard son of Addie and Whitfield, the local minister. Jewel is the novel's most evasive character, as he appears consistently in other narrators' chapters but only narrates one chapter himself. As I Lay Dying is a Southern Gothic narrative. It was written in the 20thcentury, 1930's, by William Faulkner. This book has deeper meanings hidden throughout the story. This book can be analyzed in different perspectives to facilitate the motives of the characters and the themes of the novel. 1436 Words. Dewey Dell. And we picked on toward the secret shade and our eyes would drown together touching on his hands and my hands and I didn't say anything. I said, "What are you doing?" and he said "I am picking into your sack.". And so it was full when we came to the end of the row and I could not help it. V06xT.