As I Lay Dying
In the book As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Dewey Dell is the fourth child of Addie and Anse who just could not help it got pregnant by Lafe. Since, it was around 1920 being pregnant without marriage was unacceptable. Throughout the book Dewey Dell changes due to being pregnant to her mother dying to wanting to abort without anyone knowing although her older brother Darl finds out.
In 1920, women only had one role which was to become a housewife. They clean and cook the house before the husband came from work and have babies. Dewey Dell action was different she had sexual activity before marriage. She was deciding whether or not to do it with lafe. If her sack was full of cotton she would if not she would not do it,it was a way of God saying it is not right.“I will turn up the next row but if the sack is full, I cannot help it.” This is a way of
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She goes to Peabody the same doctor who treated her mother before her death to help her with her abortion. “I could tell you and then nobody would have to know except you and me and Darl.” Going to Peabody did not help and decides to go out of town with her family to bury her mother next to her mother’s family. Although she does reminds Anse, her father of her mother funeral and she will always have in mind to go to a pharmacy because they might just help her abort. Arriving to town she goes to a pharmacist Moseley to get an abortion medicine for ten dollars that Lafe has given her for her abortion. Although she leaves without medicine she goes and still has her hope to get someone else to help her. She arrives to MacGowan and is willing to pay ten dollars plus her dignity to McGowan for helping her to abort. Dewey Dell now shows her despairing how she is alone and naive looking for help. She has now shown that she has been impacted in a way where she cannot do anything. She is