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Addie's Plan

♫  She said lay me away, I tell her alright okay, I only love my wife and some new teeth I'm sorry  ♫ I don't really know what Anse was thinking when he promised Addie to bury her in Jefferson, but it was probably quite close to that. In all serious though, I want to talk about Addie's plan for making her family journey to Jefferson, and what Anse's stubbornness and attitude towards others reflects upon him in the role of paterfamilias.  Addie wanted to make the whole family suffer by forcing them go to Jefferson to bury her, and I think that is has worked out quite well so far (I have not finished the book yet so I don't know how it ends but I imagine with Faulkner everything is going to go extremely poorly). I'm really wondering why, though? Did she hate Anse and her kids so much that she wanted them to be miserable, or did she just not know how much they would have to endure to get her buried? I know that she did not seem quite fond of her children. She r