dewey dell

dewey dell keeps to herself a lot and isn't too active in the family unless she has to be. she is quiet at the beggining of the book and doesn't do much but fan her mother. her first passage is about her and lafe and we see into the mind of dewey dell and how immature she seems to be. she's just a girl but she has to deal with this "tub of guts" the only person that knows about it are her and darl and he finds out because "he knew without the words." darl and deewy dell have a talk without really talking and that goes with a larger theme in the books of words and how characters have trouble finding the right ones or using them. on page 48 we see more of dewey dell but from the eyes of darl when their mother is dying. we see some emotion from dewey dell for the first time, in my opinion. in the last paragraph on that page darl talks about her voice and how she "flung herself across addie bundren's knees" she shows a lot of emotion at her mother's death that wasn't really expected. in dewey's section on page 58 we see more into her mind and how she doesn't have the words again. she is talking about how peabody could help her get rid of this tub of guts but he wont and she goes on about being alone and it goes with the idea of her being away and isolated from the family. she is saying how she is alone and lafe is alone and if she could feel the baby she wouldn't be alone but she wants the alone, just not with the baby in her alone. again on page 120 we see into the teenage mind she has where all she can worry about is what is going on with her. the passage can be interpreted in multiple ways but i think that she is talking about the baby being too soon. she doesn't speak like an adult would in her mind, in this part or previous parts, she repeats herself a lot as if she is unsure of what she is saying and if she says it more than she will be able to wrap her not so developed mind around the complex ideas, kind of a ways to reassure herself also like at the end of the passage when she says "i believe in God, God. God, i believe in God." she can't even worry about the death of her mother because of the baby. she was there when her mother died but she says "i heard my mother was dead" this shows how she was so worried about other things that she didn't even really notice what was going on around her. dewey dell does a lot for other while still keeping to herself, like when jewel is sneaking off to work and addie makes the others compensate for the slack and do his job. sge is kind of the second mother in a way. she has to cook and help clean and take help with vardaman when she's just a child herself.