Samson

Samson

“A man can’t tell nothing about them. I lived with the same one fifteen years and I be durn if I can. And I imagined a lot of things coming up between us, but I be durn if I ever thought it would be a body four days dead and that a woman. But they make life hard on them, not taking it as it comes up, like a man does.” Pg 117-118


This quote shows how Samson thinks. It is truly getting into his mind to find out what he is interested in. The first thing that we can understand is about him and his wife Rachel’s relationship. Although they have been married for so long like it states here, they seem to fight a lot. We can infer this because of how confused he is by them. Also it shows how he feels about himself. The tone that he gives off while reading this sounds as if he thinks very highly of himself, and not only is he upset that the Bundren’s wont accept his hospitality, he is offended to as why they aren’t. He thinks that he is very high on his status, and because he is so upset starts to ridicule them. The diction that he uses, sets the tone so that the reader can tell that he is upset that they are not accepting his hospitality. The last thing the author uses is his tone. The tone set by this is very cocky, and anti-feminine. He is ridiculing woman throughout this paragraph saying how much he doesn’t understand them, and then again when he says that the Bundren’s aren’t acting like men.