William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying originally takes place in the 1930’s in the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha. Throughout the novel, though, the setting moves between the city of Jefferson and Bundren 's household. Even though the majority of the novel takes place on the outskirts of a momentous city, the region itself is found to be exceptionally rural.
The Burden’s household itself is described as having been composed of “rough logs” with long ago missing “chinking. The description of the house directs the reader to believe it is hand built and very small, containing a solitary window and taking mere four strides to cross the floor. On the porch of the household lays a cedar bucket holding the family 's water supply. A