Addie Bundren uses her death to punish her family, and causes the actions in which each Bundren character takes advantage of Addie. With the character's actions revolving around her death, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying reveals the truth about the people who surround a person may take advantage of him or her. The death of Addie Bundren shapes all of the character's actions in life including Addie's final request before her death. Addie takes advantage of her death by using it for revenge and inflicting final pains upon some characters, while the other characters use her to get what they want for their personal needs.
             Addie causes all the painful actions around her family either directly or indirectly. Addie is the main abuser of her upcoming death in As I Lay Dying. She makes sure that the people in her family whom she dislikes must experience her wrath before she moves on to the next life. Addie is the one who is dying, but she makes sure that everyone else in the family suffers as much as she did. Inflicting pain mostly on Anse, Addie enjoys herself. Anse is a lazy man and is forced by his wife to take her to Jefferson to be buried as her final request. Addie's revenge on Anse was payback for all the times when he just sat around while Addie, her children, and sometimes neighbors do all the hard work for him. Also Addie punishes Anse by having a secret affair with minister Whitfield. Addie also indirectly hurts one of her favorite sons, Cash. Cash is hurt indirectly when he helps his family carry his mother's coffin to Jefferson, where along the path, he breaks his leg while crossing a flooded river. Although Cash is one of Addie's favorites besides Jewel, Addie's cruel revenge carries over to Cash's broken leg, which later becomes infected. Besides her indirect action on Cash's leg, Cash is one of the more favored of Addie's children.
             Jewel is another of Addie's more favored children. Still, Jewel seem...