Dewey Dell Bundren

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2019-12-06 14:54
Character Key Number: 
679
Display Name: 
Dewey Dell Bundren
Sort Name: 
Bundren, Dewey Dell
Parent Character Key: 
Addie Bundren
Anse Bundren
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
Biography: 

Dewey Dell is the fourth child and only daughter of Addie and Anse Bundren in As I Lay Dying. Cora Tull calls her a "tom-boy girl" (8); several male characters comment on how "pretty" she is, "in a kind of sullen, awkward way" (199). Unknown to anyone but her brother Darl and Lafe, her sexual partner, she is pregnant and wants to go to Jefferson to get an abortion. She is able to communicate with Darl without words and she narrates four chapters in the novel.

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