cash, last pages

Kayla Hughes
Mrs. Baione
Period 3
Cash pages 258-261
“ ‘It’s Cash and Jewel and Vardaman and Dewey Dell,’ pa says, kind of hangdog and proud too, with his teeth and all, even if he wouldn’t look at us. ‘Meet Mrs Bundren,’ he says.” (Page 261)
This quote displays the irony of the final scene which ends the book. It seems comical that Anse could just run out and get a new wife so soon after he buried his old one, and also that he finally got his teeth which seemed more important to him then his wife dying. This chapter is interesting because it also shows the shift of a thoughtful narrative from Darl who goes crazy, to Cash who has been reserved throughout the whole book. Cash is now the rational thinker, and it shows because of the way he almost satirizes his father for what he has done.


This picture represents everything Cash is chastising in the last chapter. Not only does it appear Cash thinks what his father has done is ridiculous, but he also reflects on the faults of society as well. When he talks about Darl and his madness, he says it “aint so much what a fellow does” as how “the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.” Therefore Cash takes over as the insightful narrator Darl once was, and reflects on how society forces social norms upon people that they shouldn’t necessarily have to conform to.