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“And then I knew that I knew. I knew that as plain on that day as I knew about Dewey Dell on that day.”
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“They stand in rigid terrific hiatus, the horse trembling and groaning. Then Jewel is on the horse’s back. He flows upward in a stooping swirl like the lash of a whip, his body in mid-air shaped to the horse.”
“It’s not your horse that’s dead, Jewel…Jewel’s mother is a horse.”
“Then it topples forward, gaining momentum, revealing Jewel and the sparks raining on him too in engendering gusts, so that he appears to be closed in a thin nimbus of fire.”
“It was the sweetest thing I ever saw. It was like he knew he would never see her again, that Anse Bundren was driving him from his mother’s deathbed, never to see her in this world again. I always said Darl was different from those others…he was the only one of them that had…any natural affection. Not that Jewel….”
“Jewel, fifteen feet behind me, looking straight ahead, steps in a single stride through the window. Still staring straight ahead, his pale eyes like wood set into his wooden face, he crosses the floor in four strides with the rigid gravity of a cigar store Indian dressed in patched overalls and endued with life from the hips down, and steps in a single stride through the opposite window and into the path again just as I come around the corner.”
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Character Analysis of Darl Bundren
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By Kaan Kandemir
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