As I Lay Dying Character Analysis

As I Lay Dying In William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying it shows Darl's change from sanity to insanity as the novel unfolds. No one knows of this change until it is to late for them or Darl to do anything. Darl finds that his hold on reality starts to loosen as he figures out to himself that his mother does not exist if she is dead. Darl to others was always regarded as strange. "Nevertheless, he was regarded by others as strange"; as Cora Tull says, he was "the one that folks says is queer, lazy, pottering about the place no better than Anse." www.mcsr.olemiss.edu
Darl unlike others in his family showed no motivation to make the trip to Jefferson with his mom's corpse and was little to no help to his family on their journey. There are many events on the Bundren family's journey to Jefferson leading to Darl's downfall where he is eventually sent to a mental asylum in Jackson. The first of these on
One of Darl's consequences is being alienated from the community around him. But Darl is almost clairvoyant almost being able to clearly describe the scene of his mothers' death. Even though he and jewel are far away from the family farm he can still describe it. Other characters alienate Darl for the soul reason that they are afraid that he will get to close to them and there secrets. Darl is a very dark and shady character and as a character of his position he had lines in 19 of the novel 59. And the last and most biggest of Darl's events is when his father Anse discovers the Gillespies barn incident and tackles Darl in the town street. But that is not the actual events that takes place. It is when Darl is on the bus to the insane asylum. It is then and only then where Darl's complete change sanity to insanity is completed. It is on this bus that Darl starts talking to himself and others referring his speech in the third person.