![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel is told through the eyes of 15 different point of view characters over the course of 59 chapters. However, the father, Anse decides to pick up a new wife in town. At the end of the book, Darl is institutionalized, Cash is told he may never walk again from his injuries and the mother is buried in her hometown of Jefferson. The second oldest son, Darl, suffers a psychotic break and attempts to set their mother's coffin ablaze. Eventually, they run into trouble attempting to cross a swollen river and the oldest son, Cash is hurt. On the long journey, much is revealed about the family through their own internal narration. The book is about the Bundren family, a poor farming family in Mississippi who, after their mother dies, travel to a town called Jefferson to honor her wish to be buried there. The novel is ranked among the best novels of the 20th century in many circles and it significantly aided in Faulkner's winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature in 1949. ![]()
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