![]() First, he allows or forces the reader to participate in the story. Even though there are several important narrators who are not Bundrens, the largest number of the sections is presented by one or the other of the Bundrens.īy using a different narrator for each section, Faulkner accomplishes many things. Accordingly, each of the fifty-nine sections is narrated by some character in the novel. He allows his characters to tell their own story. ![]() ![]() But the novel is also structured in such a way that the author has virtually removed himself from the story. So, in one sense, the novel has a linear structure based upon the movement of the funeral procession traversing the forty miles from the Bundren farm to Jefferson. ![]() During the journey, several difficulties are encountered. In its broadest terms, the structure of As I Lay Dying revolves around the preparations for and the actual journey from the Bundren farm to a town forty miles away in order to bury Addie Bundren. ![]()
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