#darl bundren

[clever-name-change]

Something I really enjoy about “As I Lay Dying” is that Cash and Jewel—who Addie was most fond of compared to her other children—are the only ones with names that represent concrete value. They are money and precious stones respectively. Meanwhile, Darl and Dewie Dell and Vardaman—who Addie only bore begrudgingly/as penance for her adultery—are not allotted that same purpose. They do not matter to her (or to anyone besides themselves) and that reality is reflected in ways as fundamental to their identities as their names. Ugh. I sincerely enjoyed my time reading this book.

[anonymanemo]

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

William Faulkner "As I Lay Dying"

[leeleechy]

there should be an as i lay dying fandom cuz ive been thinking about darl bundren for three years straight. how often i have lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home i guess

[beefsoupwchunks]

Dewey Dell doodles

[therainbowwillow]

Nobody gets Darl As I Lay Dying like I do

[thearsonistofarland]

IT’S ALL DARL OH MY GOD

[thearsonistofarland]

Darl is taking a page out of Abner Snopes’ playbook I see

[alvidas-window]

Neurodivergence In Characters Darl Bundren and Hamlet

Here's an essay i wrote for my AP Lit class on neurodivergence in characters Hamlet and Darl Bundren from Hamlet and As I Lay Dying. Check it out!

“Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-Way. It’s like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”-Carl Bundren (Faulkner) Society raises children to follow unspoken constructs set for them at birth; divergence from these rules evokes the wrath of…

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