darl’s final chapter is a complete departure from himself. he refers to himself in third person and he has absolutely dissociated his being from his body. #ch57#AILD
macgowan’s chapter is further proof of the existing divide between country and town-folk. dewey dell is pretty for a country girl above all else. #ch55#AILD
pg. 233 who has the right to say when a man is crazy or “when he aint” because no one is ever pure crazy or pure sane
who has the right to declare darl crazy then? #ch53#AILD
jewel saves addie in the end. her punishment becomes her savior. however, her “saving” allows her body to remain a rotting corpse in the uneven coffin. would she have wanted to be saved? #ch50#AILD
darl is so deranged that the fire has taken on a physical form and a “he” is running around before his own eyes. darl never admits to sparking a fire of his own. #ch50#AILD
vardaman’s chapters prove how secrets between family are harmful to one’s psyche. he continues to tell himself anout the thing he saw that dewey told him not to tell anyone about. #ch49#AILD
they follow the same routine:
cash says he’s fine and dewey wipes his face “with the hem of her dress”
dewey always seems to be comforting in some way just as she was with the fan earlier. #ch48#AILD
“jewel hasn’t got a horse anymore” pg. 210
this line is extremely disturbing coming from vardaman. vardaman confuses jewel’s horse with addie meaning that jewel no longer has a mother. could vardaman be getting better or slowly getting worse? #ch47#AILD
the “sawdust is running out” of cash’s leg now that it is broken. this is likely because his entire character’s purpose was to build and create, but his perfect coffin was unfit. #ch46#AILD