This is a story of a journey, the adventures on the road that creates disconcert. Having died while a son sawed her coffin beneath her window, Addie Bundren is carried away in the family wagon through the road of yoknapatawpha. The family wanted to pleases her wish to be buried near her blood relatives in the Jefferson. Nothing goes well, their journey, like their spiritual life, is empty and confused. All the family members have their own reasons and motives for the journey, as they pass through unfortunate accidents both comic and terrible, fire and flood, suffering and stupidity, until at least, they reach the town. The rotten corpse is buried, Dewey Dell fails in her effort to get an abortion, Cash is badly injured, Darl has gone to a mental institution, and at the very end, and the father suddenly remarries to another woman. The various ways...