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Kovesdy argues in this article that Dewey Dell follows in her mother's footsteps in small acts of rebellion towards the stereotypical matriarchal role that is forced upon her. By loosing her virginity before marriage, she shows protest towards the traditional role society has set for her. And by being unable to master household chores, she denies the expectations set for her.

Both Darl and Jewel struggle with their own identity. And the death of their mother at the time of the largest development of their identity makes it even harder to discover who the are.

Herald Hellwig finds the similiarities between the members of the Bundreon family and the Greek Gods. Like within the networks of mythological characters, there are divisions and multiple miscommunications.

"aulkner's use of multiple narrators underscores one of his primary themes: every character is essentially isolated from the others. Moreover, the characters in the novel do not communicate effectively with one another. Although the reader is privy to the characters' thoughts and emotional responses, none of the characters adequately express their dilemmas or desires to others."

Part of the satire Faulkner uses to describe the Bundreon family, is their lack of communication, typical in a family experiencing extreme hardship. They all have feelings that is shared with the reader while being kept from all members of the family, ironically while they spend immense amounts of time with each other on their journey.

or writers in the 1930s stories about the poor were seemingly mandatory, but "Faulkner presented his characters from a much larger perspective than did most fiction writers of the time. He placed them in a context that demanded that they be seen in a history and a locale, not merely as victims of a flawed economic system"

Unlike Grapes of Wrath, As I Lay Dying shifts the focus of the novel away from the Great Depression although it is still a significant part of the book. Many writers of the time period were expected to write about the depression, yet Faulkner's authorial purpose leaned heavily towards showing the satire in a family experiencing adversities.

"A mental illness is a disease that causes mild to severe disturbances in thought and/or behavior, resulting in an inability to cope with life's ordinary demands and routines."

"Your family member's behavior may be as dismaying to them as it is to you. Ask questions, listen with an open mind and be there to support them."

This article discusses mental disorders within the family unit and how to respond to mental disorders of family members. The first tactic the article stresses is the communication one must maintain with the effected family member. Contrary to this approach, in As I Lay Dying, the Bundrens refuse to discuss the corrupted mental function of Darl. They try to find the root of the issue or even support their struggling family member.

"When coping with a death, you may go through all kinds of emotions. You may be sad, worried, or scared. You might be shocked, unprepared, or confused. You might be feeling angry, cheated, relieved, guilty, exhausted, or just plain empty."

Grief is an emotional, physical, or spiritual ramifications experienced after the loss of something precious. This website focuses of humans' reactions to grief and how to cope with sudden loss. This website is catered to the teenage audience and perspective. The website gives a general overview of the ways grief can manifest in daily life and ways to cope with it. The website emphasizes the importance of confronting and dealing with grief. This relates to the different ways grief appears in each character of As I Lay Dying and the inability of them to deal with the death of Addie.

"In As I Lay Dying, Anse Bundren is a grotesque character partly because of his moral deformity: his lack of self-understanding, his parasitic and manipulative relations with others, his pious posturing."

"Insofar as the journey seemed to be a collective effort courageously undertaken by the whole family for the whole, involving heroic suffering and heroic action, that perception is undermined by the sudden dismissal of Addie, the expulsion of Darl, and the scurrying aftermath of selfish pursuits."

This article discusses the use of grotesque art in As I Lay Dying. Grotesque art is art with bad manners that challenges ideals and notions of proper order with dissonant elements. The article emphasizes the backwardness of the events of Addie's burial like the burying of a week old stinking corpse. The article also highlights the unusually motives each narrative maintains through their journey to bury Addie even though their sole concern should be about the burial of the matriarch of the family. This article would support an essay dwelling on the detachedness the Bundren family experiences.

This passage dictates that Malcolm was drawn to the religion of Islam because it focused on the rehabilitation of black men and the devilish tendencies of white people. Malcolm was prone to hate white people after being put into situations that led him to his drug and cigarette addiction.

This site talks primarily about younger children s understanding of death, and what parents should do to help their young ones cope with the phenomenon. The thought processes spoken of on this site reflect those thought by Vardaman

This article discusses the importance of outward expression after the loss of a family member, despite how close they were. This display of emotion helps one to deal with the loss, lessening the probability that it will later turn into a mental illness. Following Addie's death, with the exception of a few silent tears shed by Vardaman, and Jewel's anger outbursts, very little display of emotion is held, thus explaining the family's worsening state.

This article talks about how while children are suppose to feel bonded to their parents, they are not suppose to feel in bondage to them. This switch results in a change of position of parent in child within a family unit, resulting in stress and abnormal feelings. This is seen in the Bundren household, especially with Anse, as he sees his children as objects to take care of him.

This talks about the importance of family communication in a more modern sense, yet they values still hold true to AILD and Frankenstein. It discusses how children raised with poor communication skills cycles into family crisis, confusion and lack of self-esteem. These are all things faced by the characters of these 2 books. 

This article discusses how Victor Frankenstein transcends the bounds of nature and creates an artificial human being. This creation seemed within reach at the time, as new scientific discoveries were being made constantly, including human mastery of electricity.

Mary Shelley's perceptions of science and the dangerous power it potentially holds are intuitive. Modern day science deals daily with the exact issues of which Shelley was apparently keenly aware. She introduces ethics to the study of science, even gives science a conscious. As the monster acts on Frankenstein's conscious, some would say that Mary Shelley writes literature to act as science's conscious. It was as if she acknowledged that the future of science, if uncontrolled, could be disastrous. science and the negative effects. shelley is trying to point out the danger of community too controlled by science

Discusses the dual identity of Frankenstein and his monster as doppelgangers, as well as the tragic flaws in Frankenstein himself. It discusses Frankenstein's transformation from innocently curious student to crazy, egotistical scientist

"In this sense, the roads in the novel function as the intersection of the family and the new age of the southern rural community."

This article relates the roads that the Bundrens take in burying their matriarch to a crossroads of family life in the rural south. Instead of a traditional close family unit, southern families at the time the novel was written were beginning to separate and take different paths in life. The transition is described in the Bundrens' bumpy road to Jefferson to bury Addie.

"Most of humanity rests comfortably on the idea that even if no one else loves us, our mothers still will. But a new study casts some uncomfortable doubt on that assertion. It suggests women may be biologically programmed to love children who are healthy and most likely to live."

This LA Times article talks about the nature of unconditional parental love and a new study that contradicts it. Addie Bundren's hate of her children, excluding Jewel, does not parallel the way that most parents feel about their children. However, a new study has shown that unhealthy or imperfect children may not attract the same love as healthy children. Perhaps Addies imperfect view of her children, and their father, led to her complete lack of love for them.

"When we are born we are conscious only of ourselves, we are the universe. We perceive little  other than our basic needs, and if these needs are met we are content. As our consciousness  expands we become aware of a world outside ourselves. We discover that there are people,  places, and things around us, and that they fulfill our needs" "Most children, through experiences over a period of time, come to realize that the outside  world cannot provide all their wants and needs. They begin to supplement what is given to  them with their own efforts." This article discusses how children grow to self sufficiency when they realize their is more to the world than their own selfish needs. We see, however, that in AILD almost none of the characters grow out of this childish ideology.

This NYTimes article discusses how people cope with death through various means of art and communication--specifically writing. The authors interviewed in this article explained how this form of communication was the only way they could understand what happened, thus saving them from the insanity of being lost. The Bundren family copes with Addie's death in no communicative way. As this important outlet does not exist within the household, it may well explain the strewed psychological states of many of the characters. 

This site discusses the grief process of young children. In a normal situation, kids are typically suppose to do a lot of questioning to somehow rationalize the situation. In AILD, however, we see that Vardaman is unable to ask these questions, which is detrimental to his growing process.