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Course Hero. "As I Lay Dying Study Guide." Course Hero. 19 Jan. 2017. Web. 27 May 2023. <https://www.coursehero.com/lit/As-I-Lay-Dying/>.
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Course Hero. (2017, January 19). As I Lay Dying Study Guide. In Course Hero. Retrieved May 27, 2023, from https://www.coursehero.com/lit/As-I-Lay-Dying/
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Course Hero. "As I Lay Dying Study Guide." January 19, 2017. Accessed May 27, 2023. https://www.coursehero.com/lit/As-I-Lay-Dying/.
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William Faulkner
1930
Novel
Drama
As I Lay Dying is told from a first-person point of view by each of the main characters in the novel, alternating between characters from section to section.
As I Lay Dying is told primarily in the present tense, with some characters occasionally shifting back and forth between the present and past tenses.
The title, As I Lay Dying, comes from a line in Homer's Odyssey. When Odysseus encounters the ghost of Agamemnon in the Underworld, Agamemnon says that his wife betrayed and murdered him, adding, "As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades." The allusion introduces an inversion of the classic quest myth, where the focus is on the dying, not the dead, the identity of the referenced I, and the destructive effects of the journey.
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