The Bundrens seek shelter at the Gillespie farm. Meanwhile, the family has trouble with the sheriff, due to the horrifying stench of the body, and the Bundrens buy cement to make a cast for Cash's leg. In Mottson, Dewey Dell tries unsuccessfully to find a druggist who will give her an abortion treatment. The stench of the body is becoming stronger, and the family sets off in a hurry. To buy new mules, Anse sells Jewel's horse behind Jewel's back. The Bundrens take shelter at Armstid's farm. But Jewel manages to save the coffin from floating away downstream. The attempted crossing is disastrous: Cash's leg is broken, and he nearly drowns. The stench is becoming more noticeable, and buzzards follow the wagon. The bridges are washed away, and after a night at Samson's farm the Bundrens end up having to backtrack to find a fordable part of the river. It was Addie's longstanding wish to be buried among her birth family there. Darl and Jewel return, and the family sets off to transport the body to Jefferson. Vardaman, the youngest child, is traumatized horribly by his mother's death, and continues to confuse her with the fish he caught and killed earlier that same day.
Dewey Dell, the only girl of the family, nurses her own secrets: she is pregnant, and will seek an abortion in town.
Midtrip, they have an accident, and are forced to turn back but Addie Bundren has already died.Ĭash completes the coffin and they hold a funeral service. Darl and Jewel set off, Darl knowing that it means he will not be present for his mother's death.
Anse, the family's stupid and weak patriarch, sends two sons, Darl and Jewel, on a lumber shipping job that will net the family a few extra dollars. As a last gift to his mother, he makes a coffin for her outside the window of the room where she lies dying. Cash, the oldest son of the family, is a carpenter. They are incredibly poor, and the clan matriarch, Addie Bundren, is nearing death. The Bundren family live on their farm in Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional rural county in Mississippi.
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