As I Lay Dying

In Faulkners As I Lay Dying, he used animals to stage characters. The Bundren children are obsessed with animals through knocked out(p) the novel. Vardaman is convinced(p) that his mother is a fish, Darl declares that Jewels mother is a horse, and Dewey dell relates to the nurture dismay as another womanhood. aft(prenominal) each character learns of their mothers cobblers last they each relate an animal to situations apparent to their own lives. Varadaman sees Addie as a fish because of the way that she has been transformed from live to dead. Vardaman catches a fish on the sidereal day his mother dies and cuts it up and brings it indoors to be cooked.The blood of the fish is all all over his clothes and on the same day Addie dies. Vardaman connects a fish with his mother and believes her to be a fish. Vardaman comes back and picks up the fish. It slides out of his hands, smearing wet dirt onto him, and flops down, dirtying itself again, gapmouthed, goggle-eyed, privatene ss into the dust like it was ashamed of existence dead, like it was in a festinate to get back hid again, (Faulkner, 31). In this variance Vardaman relates his mom to beingness a fish. Vardaman uses the death of the fish to routineize the death of his mother. Vardaman comes approximately the dramaturgy, bloody as a s reverenly person to his knees, and that ere fish chopped up with the chop like it or not, (Faulkner, 38). Vardaman later grasps the excogitation of death and how it relates back to his own being. Although he searchs to be young ,Vardaman begins to attribute his at a time dead mother to a instanter dead fish. I can belief where the fish was in the dust. It is cut up into pieces of not-fish now, not-blood on my hands and overalls, (Faulkner, 53. ) The fish symbol is illustrated throughout the novel as being Vardamans mother. My mother is a fish, (Faulkner, 84).Next, Faulkner uses the Bundren cow to symbolize Addies death, the bond amongst Dewel Dell and Va rdaman. Dewey Dell is the character that relates to the highest degree with the family cow. The cow just like Dewey Dell has something privileged of them. The cow lows at the hindquarters of the bluff. She nuzzles at me, snuffing, blowing her breath in a sweet, hot blast, through my dress, against my nakedness, moaning. You got to wait a little while. Then Ill head for the hills to you, (Faulkner, 61). The milk inside the cows consistency is related to the baby growing inside of Dewey Dell.The milk is symbolic of the thing inside her body. The cow nuzzles at me moaning. Youll just draw to wait. What you got in you aint nothing to what I got in me, point if you are a woman too, (Faulkner, 63). Even though Dewey Dell is pregnant now she finds that she has to be the maternal figure in the house. You go on to the house and get your supper. He draws back. I retard him. You quit now. You leave me be, (Faulkner, 62). Jewel is inefficient to express emotion towards his mother, ho wever he has no problem portraying it towards his horse, even though his ways may seem violent. Jewel with dug heels, shutting arrive at the horses wind with unrivaled hand, with the other patting the horses sleep together in short strokes myriad and caressing, denunciation the horse with obscene ferocity, (Faulkner, 12). Based on Darls word, the horse is a symbol of Jewels love for his mother. For Jewel, however, the horse, based on his riding of it, ostensibly symbolizes a hard-won freedom from the Bundren family. Jewel is exceedingly possessive and passionate about his horse. He had spent his nights cleaning up a field in order to bribe it with his own money. Anse takes the horse and trades it for a squad of mules to bring the caravan to Jefferson.