1.)"changes. . . through which she advanced in identical and anonymous and deliberate wagons as though through a succession of creakwheeled and limpeared avatars, like something moving forever and without progress across an urn (p. 7)."
             Lena Grove found herself wading through a myriad of seemingly unending change with which she achieved little. Her love interest, Lucas Burch, still remained in hiding while this woman bore his child and the jeers from the small town people from whom she received numerous favors. She seemed to find no success in her arduous search for the father of her baby.
             2.) "Byron knows and remembers . . .the new car. . . about the town, idle, destinationless, and constant (p. 46)."
             Despite the obvious motion of the car, it seems to go nowhere. Faulkner suggests a parallel here between Christmas and Lena. Both characters have seemingly unending journeys to resolve an allusive force coupled with their respective burdens of the child and questionable heritage, the two appear to be fundamentally similar.
             3.)"My, my. A body does get around. Here we aint been coming from Alabama but two months, and now it's already Tennessee (p. 507)."
             The unusual optimistic ending to a Faulkner novel suggests that this ending was vital in completing the circle of Lena's life. She began searching on foot at a young age finding herself without parents or other protection. She again turned to walking to attempt to resolve the situation of the newborn and herself. Lena finally finds herself with a man who will walk as far as she is willing to go thus ending her journey.
             Women Begin to Assume More Masculine Personalities
             4.) ". . . '[Lena] secedes from the woman race and species and spends the balance of her life trying to get joined up with the man race. That's why they dip snuff and smoke and want to vote (p. 15).&apos
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