THE Burden Psyche
Addie Bundren conjures up the central darkness derived from her death and directly or indirectly causes 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 foremost the prominent abuser of her upcoming death in As I Lay Dying. She predetermines her time to die, and 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 revenges run throughout the family and extend beyond" (Wadlington 35). Inflicting pain mostly on Anse, Addie enjoys herself. Anse, a lazy man, is forced by his wife to take her to Jefferson to be buried as
Even the cost of a doctor for his dying wife seems money better spent on false teeth to him. 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. In truth though Anse uses this to justify trading Jewel's horse for the mules to spare himself the expense. If Addie is more sincere and more of a motherly figure to her children, then possibly she would enjoy life, and her family would enjoy her and no pain would be inflicted. The curse of Addie enchanted over her family resembles similarly to a type of hex. Anse, the prime tributary, grasps Addie's death so he can go to Jefferson to get his long and awaited false teeth. Anse's laziness and selfishness are the underlying factors to every disaster in the book. Anse is also stubborn; he could have borrowed a team of mules from Mr. ANSE AND ADDIEWilliam Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is a novel about how the conflicting agendas within a family tear it apart. As a result her selfishness towards her children in not giving enough tender love and care, her children become deprived in her life which leads to all the characters taking advantage of Addie. If Addie had cared more for her children and spent more time with her children before her death, then possibly none of painful actions that resulted from Addie's presence would have happened. Addie's revenge could have killed Jewel, but luckily it did not happen. Is Anse sincere in wanting to fulfill his promise to Addie, or is he driven by another motive? Anse plays "to perfection the role of the grief-stricken widower" (Bleikasten 84) while secretly thinking only of getting another wife and false teeth in Jefferson. Also "Addie reacts to Anse's arid conventionality by having a clandestine affair with minister Whitfield" (Wadlington 31). "I thought him and Anse never traded," Armstid said.
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