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Addie's Saw Set (Impressions of Addie (Reactions to Family Members…

- - - - She tells the reader about her life before she died and her marriage.
  - - - It is based on a conversation between Addie and Cora
      - Addie talks about her past life and her beliefs on life.
      - Addie talks about her marriage with Anse and her children
  - - - She hates Anse and the kids she has with Anse so much that she wants to be buried as far away from them as possible with her family instead of with Anse's.
      - She hates being part of a family she wants to be an independent person but, she realizes her only role in the family is to make babies.(172)
      - She considers her affair with Whitfield as a sense of freedom from her family. Which is why she considers Jewel as her child.
      - Addie hates being alone, she performed corporal punishment on her students a way for them to become aware of her. (p170)
  - - - She believes that the point of life was to stay dead for a long time.
      - She wants to pay her "debt" to Anse before she dies. (p176)
  - - - Addie is very pessimistic about life.
        
        Addie does not take religion seriously .(p174)
        
        Addie lacks maternal instinct, she does not love the children she has with Anse she actually feels disturbed by them. (p173)
        
        However, she loves Jewel who she has with Reverend Whitefield she loves him because she feels like Jewel is her child.(p175)
        
        She has a sadistic side which she lets out when she was younger. Addie used to be a school teacher and she took pleasure in beating the children.(p170)
- - - - As a teacher Addie severely disciplined her children so that they could be kept in check.
        
        She can be compared to the saw because she kept her family and her students functional like how a saw set keeps saws functional.
        
        When Anse was courting her she gave him advice on how to fix his appearance by shaving and relaxing his shoulders.
      - She also kept the family in control and established a sense of order which kept the family functioning
      - When the saw set is lost in the river this symbolizes the Bundrens losing Addie.
        
        When Addie dies the family becomes dysfunctional and they turn on each other.
      - Addie's strong will compares her to the saw because a saw is strong enough to bend metal.
        
        She strives to make her kids right be it her students or her own children.
        
        She is determined to have her family personally bury her at her hometown and nowhere else.
- - - - Lowe, Donnetta. “Addie Bundren in Faulker's ‘As I Lay Dying’ Essay.” Addie Bundren in As I Lay Dying Essay, 26 Apr. 2012, www.bartleby.com/essay/Addie-Bundren-in-Faulkers-As-I-Lay-FK9UXFCVC.
        
        Southeast Missouri State University. “Southeast Missouri State University.” As I Lay Dying: - Southeast Missouri State University, www.semo.edu/cfs/teaching/10162.html.
        
        “The Hows Of Using a Saw Set.” The How's of Setting Saws, 13 Oct. 2009, www.vintagesaws.com/library/ftj/spring97/spring97.html.