Darl Bundren
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Darl Bundren
Sort Name:
Bundren, Darl
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Lower Class
Rank:
Minor
Vitality:
Alive
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Other Texts:
Biography:
Darl Bundren is major character in As I Lay Dying (1930). His inability to fit into the conventional world anticipates Uncle Willy's story in some respects. In both that novel and this story, Darl is forcibly taken to what the narrator of "Uncle Willy" refers to as "the asylum at Jackson" (228) - though in the earlier text he is escorted by two state agents rather than a single deputy sheriff. Darl is a country man, and in the novel there is no indication that Jefferson even notices when he is carried away, so it's interesting that the juvenile narrator of this story, who would have been thirteen years old on the "day last summer" it happened, refers to that event twice (228, 229).
Disability:
psychosocially impaired
Individual or Group:
Individual
Character changes class in this text:
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