One night, Vardaman sees Darl set fire to the barn, causing its imminent destruction. Vardaman becomes fascinated with the buzzards surrounding his mother's coffin and Jewel returns to bicker with Darl. When the evening comes, they stay at the Gillespie barn. As the Bundrens pass through Mottson, they pour concrete around Cash's leg in a futile attempt to set and heal it, and Dewey Dell tries to get an abortion from a local pharmacist, with no luck.
Enraged by Anse's chicanery, Jewel vanishes from the farm in which they are staying. However, as they attempt to cross the ford, a loose log disturbs the wagon, injuring Cash's healing leg, almost losing the coffin in the water, and killing the mules.Īnse mortgages his farming tools and trades Jewel's horse for a new team of mules, so that the family can move forward. Convinced that they must persist, they travel across the river without Tull's mule. Tull has followed them to the bridge wanting to help, while his wife Cora prays for their souls. When they reach their first destination, they discover that the bridge has been washed away. It has been raining heavily, causing the land to be troublesome for traveling.
They place Addie in the homemade coffin and then inside the rickety wagon. When the boys return, Anse prepares the family for the journey to Jefferson. While they are absent, Addie closes her eyes and takes her final breath. Feuding sons Darl and Jewel depart on a lumber job as their mother lay dying, in order to make three dollars in wages. A master carpenter, Cash persistently works on her coffin, as neighboring farmers Vernon and Cora Tull offer their help and sympathy.
She had four children with her husband Anse, Cash, Darl, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman, and one son - Jewel - from her extra-marital affair with a local priest named Whitfield. An ex-schoolteacher and mother of five children, Addie becomes ill and requests that she be buried with her family in the town of Jefferson. In a rural farming town in Yoknawpatapha County, the Bundren family prepares for the death if its matriarch, Addie Bundren.
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