Tull 137-140 Kristin Giffuni

Tull Pages 137-140

“He was standing there, humped, mournful, looking at the empty road beyond the swagging and swaying bridge. And that gal, too, with the lunch basket on one arm and that package under the other. Just going to town. Bent on it. They would risk the fire and the earth and the water and all just to eat a sack of bananas. … “I gave my promise,” [Anse] says. “She is counting on it.””

Here, Faulkner primarily uses wildly changing syntax in order to show the scattered motives that holds each member of the Bundren family. They are portrayed as irrational- Anse especially. His constant repetition has gone from giving the appearance of self-reassurance to a hardly believable excuse to go to Jefferson and leave his life temporarily behind- it also dehumanizes Addie and takes away from the importance of her death.


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I found this picture both oddly literal yet perfectly descriptive of how the Bundrens- in particular Anse and Dewey Dell- look to the outside world. They both feign childish innocence and innocent ignorance in an attempt to gain what they are truly after through deceit. I also find that the blurred background emphasizes the child- analogous to the way that Dewey Dell and Anse put themselves in the foreground of whatever situation they are in, making everything else around them diminish in importance.