As I Lay Dying, written by William Faulkner and published in 1930, is a wonderful novel that, contrary to most other novels it, leaves the reader pondering questions that it refuses to answer. The absurdity of the Bundren family, the main characters in the novel, which include Darl, Cash, Addie, Anse, Jewel, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman, is shown by there actions and supported by the reactions of the citizens of Jefferson who thought that bringing a rotting corpse through a city was outrageous. This absurdity is absolutely necessary if one wants to even vaguely understand the themes that Faulkner uses throughout the novel. Faulkner's use of fifteen different narrators provides a broad landscape of points of view that allow the reader to grasp the message presented in the themes portrayed in the novel. These themes range from love to loneliness and beyond. Two of the most apparent themes that...