Unnamed Married Woman 1

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730
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Unnamed Married Woman 1
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Unnamed Married Woman 1
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
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In As I Lay Dying, both Cash and Darl believe that sex is the reason Jewel sneaks out every night, and each tries to imagine whom he is "rutting" with (131). Cash believes she must be "a married woman somewhere," because of the sexual "daring and staying power" she seems capable of (132). (It turns out, as Cash says later, that "it aint a woman" at all, 133.)

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