daman's idea of what his mother is, we get a different view. Vardaman says, "My mother is a fish"(Faulkner 84). At first glance we seem to think that Vardaman also has an absurd way of thinking about human existence, but, when we look closely at why he is saying this, we come to another answer. Vardaman catches a fish that he guts and cleans. He says, "It is cut up into pieces of not-fish now"(Faulkner 53). Vardaman seems to have a strange idea of what things are when they are alive and what they are when they die. The fish was a fish when he caught it, however, when he cleaned it, it was not-fish. His mother was his mother when she was alive. Now she is not "not-mother", but she is instead a fish. Vardaman's view seems to stand out as a relieving contrast to the other bro
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