Read the following to excerpts that illustrate Anse's and Darl's points of view from William Faulkner's
From Anse
And now I got to pay for it, me without a tooth in my head, hoping to get ahead
enough so I could get my mouth fixed where I could eat God's own victuals as a
man should, and her hale and well as ere a woman in the land until that day. Got to
pay for being put to the need of that three dollars. Got to pay for the way for them
boys to have to go away to earn it. And now I can see same as second sight the
rain shutting down betwixt us, a coming up that road like a durn man, like it want
ere a other house to rain on in all the living land.
I have heard men cuss their luck, and right for they were sinful men. But I do not
say it's a curse on me, because I have done no wrong to be cussed by. I am not
religious I reckon. But peace is my heart: I know it is. I have done things but
neither better nor worse than them that pretend otherlike, and I know that Old
Marster will care for me as for ere a sparrow that falls. But it seems hard that a
man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
From Dart:
Tull's wagon stands beside the spring, hitched to the rail, the reins wrapped about
the seat stanchion. In the wagon bed are two chairs. Jewel stops at the spring and
takes the gourd from the willow branch and drinks. I pass him and mount the path,
beginning to hear Cash's saw.
When I reach the top he has quit sawing. Standing in a litter of chips, he is fitting
two of the boards together. Between the shadow spaces they are yellow as gold,
like soft gold, bearing on their flanks in smooth undulations the marks of the adze
blade: a good carpenter, Cash is. He holds the two planks on the trestle, fitted
along the edges in a quarter of the finished box. He kneels and squints along the
edge of them, then he lowers them and takes up the adze. A good carpenter. Addie
Bundren could not want a better one, better box to lie in. It will give her confidence
and comfort
How do the two narrators differ in how they tell the story of Addie Bundren's impending death, and what
does the reader learn about each narrator? Be sure to use specific details from the text to support