In addition, the Bundren’s decide to wait until Addie dies to transfer her to Jefferson, this means, their own mother’s corpse through the state of Mississippi this obviously leads to the family being affected by the moral standards of the gossiping neighbors and friends they had, which is a clear example of how easy it is for someone to get taken away by the mere act of judging another fellow. However, the Bundren’s face not only complications between them, but are also in a dilemma when exposed to people from outside of the family circle. The whole novel itself is a funeral after Addie Bundren dies and leaves Anse with a promise he made of her being buried at Jefferson, her hometown. Both Mersault and Jewel lose their mother, and none of them worry to show any sign of grief or emotional pain, as opposed to what is socially accepted. In addition, there happen to exist many characters like Jewel, and so is the case in Albert Camus’s novel ‘The Stranger’, where the main character Mersault is widely known for being selfish, careless, and egocentric a genuine reflection of Jewel. In contrast to societal standards, Jewel, being one of the characters in the novel, is used as an illustration of an emotion-less person. Societal standards express what should happen to someone when being face to face to certain particular events, and how this may or may not affect them but when Faulkner tries to create such kind of event, he does it in a way that the reader may interpret as atrocious and unnatural, due to the fact that the characters seem as unprepared as the reader for any misfortune that shall happen throughout the story.Īlthough humans live with the awareness of death being natural and inevitable, Faulkner uses it as a key to transport the reader to a story that does it’s best to make it look as something understandable however, human kind cannot understand death completely, only accept it.
It is merely a fact that each person reacts differently to unavoidable disgraceful situations, and so is the case when the Bundren family represents each struggle one can have when facing the crudeness of death. In the novel of desperation, ‘As I Lay Dying,’ William Faulkner genuinely represents the effects of emotional distress in one’s mind through a twisted and strange series of events happening to a country family.
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