What is cash building in As I Lay Dying?
The oldest son is Cash.He is the one Addie refers to when she says that she stole Anse's son.When Cash was born, his mother discovered that words are meaningless and that only through acts can people achieve an awareness of life.Cash rarely speaks in the novel and only after some action is performed.He seems to only be concerned with one act at a time.He and Addie know that the finished product is more important than what is said about it.He doesn't seem to know that his mother is dying as he builds the coffin.After the coffin is almost completed, his first section enumerates the thirteen steps or reasons why he built it.Cash seems to know that words are useless.He tries to protest that he doesn't want the cement on his leg, but the words are useless and he just resigns himself to the torture.He doesn't bother to come up with words to express his pain.Cash seems to be justified in his view towards words when Darl is sent to the insane asylum."We are all crazy and sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way," he says.It was the talking about the act that convinced people that Darl was insane.Cash reflects Addie's views about the uselessness of words and only sees one action at a time, and his main concern is with each immediate action.
The oldest son is Cash.He is the one Addie refers to when she says that she stole Anse's son.When Cash was born, his mother discovered that words are meaningless and that only through acts can people achieve an awareness of life.Cash rarely speaks in the novel and only after some action is performed.He seems to only be concerned with one act at a time.He and Addie know that the finished product is more important than what is said about it.He doesn't seem to know that his mother is dying as he builds the coffin.After the coffin is almost completed, his first section enumerates the thirteen steps or reasons why he built it.
Cash seems to know that words are useless.He tries to protest that he doesn't want the cement on his leg, but the words are useless and he just resigns himself to the torture.He doesn't bother to come up with words to express his pain.
Cash seems to be justified in his view towards words when Darl is sent to the insane asylum."We are all crazy and sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way," he says.It was the talking about the act that convinced people that Darl was insane.
Cash reflects Addie's views about the uselessness of words and only sees one action at a time, and his main concern is with each immediate action.
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