Submitted by jjoiner@keuka.edu on Tue, 2014-07-29 08:50
In her section of As I Lay Dying Addie remembers the first time she met Anse, and mentioned his "good farm" (171). Apparently that and his "new house" are important factors in her decision to marry him. There's no suggestion in the novel that the Bundrens are sharecroppers, but like many of the other small cotton farmers in their part of Yoknapatawpha it's clear that they have to struggle for subsistence. The farm sits below the bluff that the house is built on top of.
