As I Lay Dying-Tull and Cora

Cora's Thoughts on

the Bundrens

Addie-lonely woman, lonely with her pride, trying to hard her sufferings,doesn't approve of her wish, never been purely religious

Anse-selfish and lazy

Jewel-flings into tantrums or sulking spells, invents devilment to devilment, selfish, stone-hearted

Darl-different and special from the rest, only one who has a natural affection

Dewey Dell-"near naked girl"(p.24)

Vardaman-a strange little boy

Cash-good carpenter, always building something

Cora

Vernon Tull

• neighboring wealthier farmer
• not struggling, yet is not excessively prosperous either
• constantly trying to help the Bundrens
• tolerates but does not agree with wife's piousness

• Vernon's extremely religious wife
• often an extremely judgmental person due to her religious beliefs
• tends to compare her family to the Bundren family
• has a special love for Darl, whom she recognizes as "special"

Tull's Thoughts on

the Bundrens

Anse-"the only burden Anse Bundren had is himself"(p.73)

Darl-thinks by himself too much, all he needs is a wife to straighten him out, can see through people

Cash-cares more about his handiwork

Dewey Dell-"gal"

Vardaman-strange little boy, tends to him since Tull does not have a son

Quotes about Tull

"Vernon has been to town. I have never seen [Vernon] go to town in overalls."(p.11)-Darl

"You could borrow the loan of Vernon's team and we could catch up with you."(p.18)-Darl

"'You go on in,' Cash says.'Me and Vernon can finish it'"(p.78)-Darl

Tull & Cora

Quotes of Cora

"Lord can see into the heart. If it is His will that some folks has different ideas of honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree."(p.8)

"I have tried to live right in the sight of God and man, for the honor and comfort of my Christian husband and the love and respect of my Christian children."(p.23)

"I always said Darl was different from those others."(p.21)

Quotes of Tull

"Cora said...I reckon she's right"(p.73)

"Leastways, we would have to like them. Leastways, we might as well go on and make like we did."(p.74)

"...you would rather have milk that will sour than to have milk that won't, because you are a man."(p.139)

Thank you for listening

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Quotes about Cora

"Cora is right..."(p.71)-Tull

"I reckon if there's ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon she would make a few changes, no matter how He was running it."(p.73-74)-Tull

"...you would rather have milk that will sour than to have milk that won't, because you are a man."(p.139)-Tull

A Passage

absolving you." And she said, "I know my own sin. I know that I deserve my punishment. I do not begrudge it." And I said, 'It is out of your vanity that you would judge sin and salvation in the Lord's place.”It is our mortal lot to suffer and to raise our voices in praise of Him who judges the sin and offers the salvation through our trials and tribulations time out of mind amen. Not even after Brother Whitfield, a godly man if ever one breathed God's breath, prayed for you and strove as never a man could except him," I said.”(p.167)

“And she said, "My daily life is an acknowledgment and expiation of my sin" and I said "Who are you, to say what is sin and what is not sin? It is the Lord's part to judge; ours to praise His mercy and His holy name in the hearing of our fellow mortals" because He alone can see into the heart, and just because a woman's Me is right in the sight of man, she cant know if there is no sin in her heart without she opens her heart to the Lord and receives His grace. I said, "Just because you have been a faithful wife is no sign that there is no sin in your heart, and just because your life is hard is no sign that the Lord's grace is