Faulkner's Burdened Bundrens: Notable Quotables and the Epic Journey
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Etta Molly Gee
Etta Molly Gee Notable Quotables The Epic Journey Burdened Bundrens Faulkner and his Homies Potpourri $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500
1 - 100 “It’s better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse…”
1 - 100 Who is Cash? $100
1 - 100 Who is Vardaman? $200
“The was when I learned that words are no good; that words don’t even fit what they are trying to say at.”
1 - 100 Who is Addie? $300
1 - 100 Who is Cora? $400
“I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it be merely a function of the mind.”
1 - 100 Who is Peabody? $500
The Bundrens encounter hell, in the form of the barn fire, and high this, the other classic symbol of an obstacle in a journey. 1 - 100
1 - 100 What is water? $100
Cash’s leg turns black toward the end of the journey because his cast is made of this.
1 - 100 What is cement? $200
1 - 100 What is the team of horses? $300
After the accident, Cash makes it to shore with the assistance of this living creature – not one of his brothers.
1 - 100 What is a horse? $400
The entire epic journey begins because of Addie’s wish to be buried with these people, rather than Anse and the kids.
1 - 100 Who are her parents? $500
1 - 100 This character’s name evokes Addie’s feeling that he is her “cross and salvation.”
1 - 100 Who is Jewel? $100
This character is named after a county in Mississippi; some scholars think his name also suggests that he is an orphan.
1 - 100 Who is Vardaman? $200
This character’s names supposedly suggests innocence, like the moisture on the grass in a field in the morning.
1 - 100 Who is Dewey Dell? $300
This character’s name is derived from an actual word that means “tall, silly, and goose-like”…please don’t call me that.
1 - 100 Who is Anse? $400
This character’s name suggests he may be his mother’s favorite; he’s not, but Cora Tull thinks he is.
1 - 100 Who is Darl? $500
1 - 100 Patriarch Anse is eager to buy a new set of these when he arrives in town.
1 - 100 What is teeth? $100
This very sensitive son narrates the bulk of the novel, and goes crazy because of it.
1 - 100 Who is Darl? $200
All five of the Bundren children belong to Addie; this one does not belong to Anse.
1 - 100 Who is Jewel? $300
Before building Addie’s coffin, this son fell off the roof and broke his leg.
1 - 100 Who is Cash? $400
The only daughter in the clan, she is preoccupied with being pregnant with Lafe’s child.
1 - 100 Who is Dewey Dell? $500
William Faulkner grew up in this Southern state, where he chose to set many of his novels. 1 - 100