- Modernism : genre that is characterized that it is going to offer reality in a different way.
- Panoramic understanding of what is going on
- Reality shifts depending on the point of view
- We have to piece together the different points of view to find information that is reliable
- Darl is more observant and detached
- Jewel is much more personal and emotional
- Darl's language is rich and full of description
- Addie is the "I" in the title, but her voice has not yet been heard
- Cash wants to give Addie whats she needs but due to his history of backwards thinking, we can suppose that -Cash building Addie's coffin outside her window is just a naive attempt at proving his love for his mother.
- Jewel believes that everyone is a "buzzard", waiting for Addie to die
- Jewel is a mama's boy
- Jewel doesn't want to share Addie with anyone else.
- Instead of thinking of what Addie might want, he automatically puts ideas as what she might want and he doesn't take the time to think of what Addie might want.
- Cora is super religious judgmental hypocrite
- Jewel was babied as a child and this explains his current behavior
- Cora accuses the Bundren
- Vernon Tull only cares about his business
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