![]() ![]() 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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