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• Stream which is flooded.
• Stream of Consciousness
• Darl insane and goes asylum in the end
• Intelligence and Insanity is same for Darl.
• Vultures spooky and Gothic image
• Whose consciousness?
• Carpenter handy guy
• 59 chapters why not 60
• making kids to full the void inside her
• Postcolonial: absence of black people except in an insult
• the body lay lie laying
• destruction as creativity- barn burning
• Farm collective labor
• theme of muse
• building coffin
• Grotesque imagery is important
• ends with Cash
• Battle of two views of art
• empathy does not necessarily mean that you are a good person
• A rotting corpse . if your dead stinks that's not holy.
• Cash’s leg, broken, gangrene.

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Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.”

The Lord can see into the heart. If it is His will that some folks has different ideas of honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree.

it would not be happening with every bastard in the county coming in to stare at her because if there is a God what the hell is He for.

Sometimes I lose faith in human nature for a time; I am assailed by doubt. But always the Lord restores my faith and reveals to me His bounteous love for His creatures. Not Jewel, the one she had always cherished, not him. He was after that three extra dollars. It was Darl, the one that folks say is queer, lazy, pottering about the place no better than Anse, with Cash a good carpenter and always more building than he can get around to, and Jewel always doing something that made him some money or got him talked about, and that near-naked girl always standing over Addie with a fan so that every time a body tried to talk to her and cheer her up, would answer for her right quick, like she was trying to keep anybody from coming near her at all.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind--and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth

The air smells like sulphur. Upon the impalpable plane of it their shadows form as upon a wall, as though like sound they had not gone very far away in falling but had merely congealed for a moment, immediate and musing.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn’t care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.

• Inspired by cubism, Faulkner fragments narratives and characters, presenting "pieces" of their inner selves.
• Addie, the enigmatic mother, portrays a nontraditional image of motherhood. She feels "empty" and uses childbirth as a means of filling that void.
• Darl is poetic, sensitive, and manipulative, able to read others' emotions, which he uses strategically.
• His eventual descent into "madness" (symbolized by his barn-burning and institutionalization) reflects the breakdown of order and sanity in the family and society.
• Vardaman is a little autistic kid
• Addie Bundren's death is the central event, and her absence exposes the dysfunction in the Bundren family. Her emotional detachment from her children even before her death highlights an estranged and broken maternal bond.
• Jewel’s relationship with his mother is marked by favoritism, while Dewey Dell grapples with the loss of maternal guidance amidst her own crisis.
• Anse Bundren, the family patriarch, is passive and selfish, failing to provide emotional or practical support to his children. His inadequacy leaves a void where a strong father figure might have mitigated the chaos.
• The novel explores the "otherness" within family, society, and even the self.

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