Dewey Dell is seventeen, and a recent sexual experience has left her pregnant. Increasingly desperate, she finds her mind occupied exclusively with her pregnancy, and views all men with varying degrees of suspicion. The youngest of the Bundren children. Although his ramblings at the beginning of the novel border on the maniacal, Vardaman proves to be a thoughtful and innocent child. Tull is both a critic of and an unappreciated help to the Bundrens.
He hires Darl, Jewel, and Cash for odd jobs, and helps the family cross the river in spite of its overt hostility toward him. In a supreme effort to disassociate himself from her problems, Lafe gives Dewey Dell ten dollars with which to pay for an abortion. The local minister. Held up by Cora Tull as the pinnacle of piety, Whitfield is in fact a hypocrite.
The severely overweight rural doctor who attends to Addie and later to Cash. Peabody is extremely critical of the way Anse treats his children.
The local farmer who puts up the Bundrens on the first evening of their disastrous funeral journey. A local farmer who puts up the Bundrens on the second evening of their funeral journey. A rather despicable young employee at a Jefferson drugstore. MacGowan extorts a sexual favor from Dewey Dell in return for a fake abortion treatment. SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. The other clerk knows what MacGowan intends, suggesting that he has done this before.
MacGowan has to figure out what Dewey Dell wants. He thinks to himself that country people either do not know what they want or they cannot say what they want. He asks as few questions and she finally says that she has not had the "female troubles," which lets MacGowan know what she wants.
She also tells him that she has money and shows him a ten-dollar bill. MacGowan is a little too obvious with his intentions and the other clerk keeps yelling that he should not be back there.
Dewey Dell begins to doubt his claim that he is a doctor, but is desperate and puts up with his excuses. She tells him that she was told she could get something at a drugstore, but he does not know what it is. Finally, so that she does not leave, he says he knows some secret cures that he has learned.
She repeats that she only has ten dollars and he says his knowledge will cost more than that. She asks how much and he says that she has three guesses. Dewey Dell now knows what he means, and agrees only after he gives her the medicine. He finds an unlabeled bottle and pours some, assuming that poison would be labeled, and gives it to her.
She agrees and drinks it. Dewey Dell returns as agreed and brings Vardaman, who stays outside in front of the store. MacGowan gives her six talcum powder pills that he made up and tells her she needs to take them down in the cellar. MacGowan represents a city view of country people: they are ignorant and exploitable. Dewey Dell is desperate and naive to urban attitudes but does start to catch on.
She assumes that even though MacGowan might lie about being a doctor, he would still help her. The sun is about to set. Peabody notices that a storm is coming. He is very overweight, and needs help climbing the bluff to the Bundren house. Dewey Dell tells Peabody that Addie wants him to leave. Cash continues to saw away, and Addie calls out his name loudly.
Darl, still on his journey with Jewel, somehow knows what is happening back at the Bundren household. Addie calls out again to Cash, who begins pantomiming the act of putting the coffin pieces together so she can see how they will fit. Dewey Dell flings herself upon Addie, clutching her tightly. Vardaman and Anse look on in silence. At this moment, Addie dies. Dewey Dell calls for her mother, and the narrative flashes over to Jewel and Darl.
Back at the Bundren home, Cash enters the room and Anse gives him the news, telling him that he needs to finish up the coffin quickly. Cash stares at Addie for a time, and then returns to work.
Anse tells Dewey Dell that she should prepare supper, and Dewey Dell leaves the room.
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