As I Lay Dying

Faulkner's "e;As I Lay Dying"e; presented the process that a peasant of Southern US and his family buried their matriarch in the 1920s. Based on the contradictions of words and actions, as well as rationality and emotion, this novel analyzed the distorted family relations due to the matriarc [...]
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Faulkner's "e;As I Lay Dying"e; presented the process that a peasant of Southern US and his family buried their matriarch in the 1920s. Based on the contradictions of words and actions, as well as rationality and emotion, this novel analyzed the distorted family relations due to the matriarch Addie's lifetime aversion to words, in the materialistic society. Among the children, Darl who represented rational words was sent to the madhouse by the family members, while the other on behalf of emotion survived. Without words, they lost the tool that can express rationality, and lived a life like animals. The journey during the funeral procession reflected the abnormal and ruthless development process of materialistic society of US in the 1920s.