At the burial ground, after the mother has finally been buried, emotions isolated, as Darl was about to be taken to the mental institution after the family had declared that he was crazy. The Bundren’s plan was to send Darl to Jackson to a mental institution. As Darl was being taken away Dewey Dell and Jewel suddenly attack him. Cash narrated this scene and he was surprised when Dewey Dell violently attacked Darl because in his perspective he thought that Dewey Dell liked Darl better than anyone else in the family.
He states, “But the curiousest thing was Dewey Dell. It surprised me. I see all the while how folks could say he was queer, but that was the very reason couldn’t nobody hold it personal.... And then I always kind of had an idea