Question 1

Darl sets fire to Gillespie's barn where Addie's coffin is kept. He is declared to be legally insane
and brought over to the state asylum in Jackson; one of the factors for doing so is that Darl
becomes the necessary sacrifice who will be given otherwise Gillespie would sue the Bundrens
for the arson and appeal for compensation. Often the family faces the choice of conventional
code of manners and the materialistic trend. It looks like they chose the second this time. They
do not have to pay the compensation if they commit Darl to insane asylum.

Question 3
Darl is one of the family members whose language and vocabulary does not look like the one of
an uneducated person, he uses more like an intellectual language

We go on with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though

time and not space were decreasing between us and it.

How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant

A cubistic bug

Starkly re-accruent