One chapter in this novel begins "I made it on a bevel" and consists of a numbered list of 13 reasons for his decision, while another chapter about a mother who claims the "reason for living is to get ready to stay dead" is considered to be a parody of The Scarlet Letter.
One chapter in this novel begins "I made it on a bevel" and consists of a numbered list of 13 reasons for his decision, while another chapter about a mother who claims the "reason for living is to get ready to stay dead" is considered to be a parody of The Scarlet Letter. One character is raped by the drugstore clerk MacGowan after she pays him for abortion medicine. Another character breaks his leg when Vernon Tull's bridge collapses before his father saves money by putting it in a cement cast. Dewey Dell betrays her brother Darl by revealing he set fire to Gillespie's farm, and at the end of this novel Anse introduces his sons Cash and Jewel to his new wife. Vardaman famously claims "My mother is a fish" in, for 10 points, which Faulkner novel about the Bundren family's trek to bury their matriarch Addie?
One chapter in this novel begins "I made it on a bevel" and consists of a numbered list of 13 reasons for his decision, while another chapter about a mother who claims the "reason for living is to get ready to stay dead" is considered to be a parody of The Scarlet Letter.
As I Lay Dying