"As I Lay Dying" Essay"
             One may believe that Darl Bundren, from the book As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, is crazy. But another may believe that Darl is sane. It is up to the reader's discretion to decide this. But one should hope that everyone believes that Darl is sane. Although there are many reasons for both, there are more for the argument that he is sane.
             Darl does some arguably insane thing in this story, but he does have reasons for doing them. For example, one may consider Darl crazy because he put Cash's injured leg in a cement cast. But in actuality, Darl did this for the reason of helping Cash. There was really nothing that insane about it. Obviously Darl is not a doctor, so he did the best he knew to do.
             Another thing one may consider Darl insane for is the fact that he burnt down the Gillespie barn while his mother's coffin was still in it. Althought this may seem insane, he did it for sane motives. One would expect that Darl would have had enough of his family being embarrassed by dragging around their mother, Addie, in a coffin with breathing wholes in it for several days. Also, everywhere the coffin went, it was followed by an awful stench that was smelt for miles. And to add onto the bad image, they were also carting around their brother Cash on te same cart as the coffin. Darl may have over-reacted a little by burning down the barn, but he had reasonable motives for doing so. He thought that if he just destroyed his mothers coffin and remains, it would end the whole nightmare and allow them to go home. In the first place, there are not really any reasons for the family wanting to make the journey. The only reason they are making the journey is to get the money and valuables. After all, Addie had not talked to her family, whom she wanted to be buried next to, in years. One should believe that what Darl did was only in an effort to make things better for hi...