Pages 154-164
“Cash lies on his back on the earth, his head raised on a rolled garment. His eyes are closed, his face is gray, his hair plastered in a smooth smear across his forehead as though done with a paint brush…” (pg 156)
Faulkner uses similes and imagery to describe Darl’s description of Cash. Throughout the novel, Darl has always used details to describe what was going on around him, but the reader can get a very clear image in their head of Cash. Reading this part of the novel can make the reader cringe and even put the book down and come back to it later. Darl makes the reader feel very sorry for Cash with his use of imagery.
I think a picture of an eye is the best way to describe Darl in this chapter. Darl is an observer. He didn’t run to help Cash right away; instead he chose to describe what was going on and be the narrator. I think that this eye can also represent a feeling of fear. Darl was most definitely afraid of losing Cash, like he was afraid of losing his mother.
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