![]() ![]() Addie and others expect her to die soon, and she sits at a window watching as her firstborn child, Cash, builds her coffin. In the novel's first chapters, Addie is alive, though in ill health. It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her poor, rural family's quest and motivations-noble or selfish-to honor her wish to be buried in her hometown of Jefferson, Mississippi. The book is narrated by 15 different characters over 59 chapters. The novel utilizes stream of consciousness writing technique, multiple narrators, and varying chapter lengths. Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature.The title derives from Book XI of Homer's Odyssey (William Marris's 1925 translation), wherein Agamemnon tells Odysseus: "As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades." As I Lay Dying is a 1930 Southern Gothic novel by American author William Faulkner. ![]()
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