Family In William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

Throughout the novel, As I Lay Dying William Faulkner gives the delusion that the family will be all right through the journey to Jefferson. As the novel goes on, a family member on his selfish quest for more destroys the family.
In the novel, Faulkner uses different characters to tell a story. With the different point of views, things are not always what they seem, due to the fluctuation of views. Darl the son of Addie and Anse, he sees things differently than other people, and can see ulterior motives (39). Anse tells everyone that Addie wanted to be buried in Jefferson. But Anse is not going for her burial but for teeth, and a new wife (52). When the trip is being taken it is the rainy season, and dangerous for the family to be traveling
The bridge they need to cross has been rained over and is not safe to cross (87). Anse wanting to get to Jefferson as soon as possible does not care for the well-being of his family and continues on anyway. The self-absorbed tunnel vision that Anse has comes at a cost; the bridge collapses while Darl and Cash are trying to cross. Anse has already safely crossed the bridge and is watching his children struggle getting across, and he does nothing (140). When the bridge collapses Cash does not hop off of the wagon and ends up breaking his leg. With the break of Cash’s leg, Tull Anses neighbor tells him they should turn around and wait for the rainy season to be over (156). Anse has selfish motives for going on the trip and does not want to turn around. Anse being selfish destroys Cash's leg for a trip that is not about burying his dead wife (111). Since the wagon went down, the mules have also died (151). Cash's leg while moving on with the trip has been grinding together and getting worse, Anse decides to use cement to lock the leg like a cast would (208). The difference between the cast and cement is that the cast allows your leg to breathe while cement does not. With the cement, Cash's leg cannot breathe and the cement is squeezing his leg, and now gangrene has set in (224). Anse still continues on with the trip even with the possibility of Cash having to amputate his
With the sinking of the mules. Anse has had to get new mules in order to continue on the trip (192). Anse has traded Jewels horse (193). The horse was not Anses to trade, and that besides his mother was the only thing Jewel has ever loved. Jewel did not get to see his mother one last time before she died, and then his father sells his horse for a trip that is not about his mother. The overwhelming narcissism than Anse shows throughout the novel has destroyed his children's lives. His only motives are his teeth and the new wife he acquires. Darl sense people's motivations, and he has come to the realization that the trip is a sham (218). With his realization he burns down a barn where his mother coffin is, the problem is that the barn is not his to burn (222). Jewel rushes into the barn to save his mother's coffin and ends up badly burned (222). Jewel has lost his horse and now he is badly scarred physically as well as emotionally (222). Darl when realizing that the coffin has been saved cries, he wanted the trip to be over (225). The owner of the barn now wants to sue Anse (237). Instead of being sued Anse trades Darls life in an insane asylum (238). Insane asylums were horrible places to be in this time, and Darl knows that he will never see the light of day again. Anse continuing on the trip destroyed three of his kids live for his selfish needs. Darl has now been committed, Cash might die, and