Based on your knowledge of the characters in the parts you read of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, which of these thoughts belongs to Anse?
A. [W]hen He aims for something to stay put, He makes it up-and-down ways, like a tree or a man.
B. You can see by an old grave that the earth sinks down on the bevel.
C. In a bed where people lie down all the time, the joints and seams are made sideways, because the stress is sideways.
D. [H]is pale eyes like wood set into his wooden face, he crosses the floor in four strides . . .

Explanation: In "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner, Anse is described by his neighbors as a lazy man. He tries to justify his laziness by explaining that God created mankind to stay in place, because mankind stands upright like a tree. "[I]f He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewheres else, wouldn't He a put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would." Anse in As I Lay Dying, pp. 34-5

mahak08 mahak08 · Answer 2 · 2022-02-21T18:53:28+01:00

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and short-story writer best known for his novels and short tales set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, which was based in Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent the majority of his youth.

What does Anse stand for in As I Lay Dying?

Addie's husband and father to Cash, Darl, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman in Anse.

Sections 9, 26, and 28 are narrated by him. Anse is a slacker. We know this because most of his neighbors tell us so and we observe him acting in this manner on a regular basis.

As a result, Anse is described as a lazy man by his neighbors. He tries to defend his idleness by claiming that God intended man to be stationary, as the man stands straight like a tree.

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