“’You clean it,’ Anse says. He don’t look around. Vardaman comes back and picks up the fish. It slides out of his hands, smearing wet dirt onto him, and flops down, dirtying itself again, gapmouthed, goggle-eyed, hiding into the dust like it was ashamed of being dead, like it was in a hurry to get back hid again” (31). During this point in the story, Vernon Tull has his first narration and he sort of acts like a concerned bystander during this chapter. Tull, unlike any character in the book, has an extreme amount of patience for Anse. Addie was set on dying and Anse was worried that Jewel and Darl would not make it back in time to be there when she dies. Anse wants to carry out Addie’s wishes by taking her to Jefferson where she asked to be buried, but in reality, Anse only cares about buying himself a new set of teeth. Tull tries to calm Anse down and reassure him that they will be back by relating Addie’s situation to his own mother’s death. Later, Vardaman, who is the youngest Bundren son, returns with a giant fish he caught. Before he was able to show his mother, Addie, Anse ordered him to go clean the fish, …show more content…
Anse began to curse out Vardaman and strictly ordered him to clean the fish, and just like other characters before Tull, the readers see that