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Cash Bundren is the oldest son of Anse and Addie. Cash’s most notable quality is his capacity for self-sacrifice. After enduring the pain of a broken leg in a cement cast, Cash characteristically says, “It never bothered me much.” Furthermore, Cash ceaselessly spends the days preceding Addie’s death making her coffin, demonstrating his pragmatic attention to detail and his very particular way of expressing affection.
Cash Bundren Quotes in As I Lay Dying
The As I Lay Dying quotes below are all either spoken by Cash Bundren or refer to Cash Bundren. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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“It won’t balance. If they want it to tote and ride on a balance, they will have …”
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34. Darl
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“Jewel shouts at the horse…He is just above the top of the ford and the horse has a purchase of some sort for it surges forward, shining wetly half out of water…Cash is half turned, the reins running taut from his hand and disappearing into the water, the other hand reached back upon Addie, holding her jammed over against the high side of the wagon.”
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40. Addie
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“So I took Anse. And when I knew that I had Cash, I knew that living was terrible and that this was the answer to it. That was when I learned that words are no good; that words don’t ever fit even what they are trying to say at.”
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46. Darl
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“It feels fine…It’s cold. It feels fine…It feels fine”
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53. Cash
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“Sometimes I aint so sho who’s got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint…It’s like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
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59. Cash
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“It’s Cash and Jewel and Vardaman and Dewey Dell…Meet Mrs. Bundren.”
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Cash Bundren Quotes in As I Lay Dying
The As I Lay Dying quotes below are all either spoken by Cash Bundren or refer to Cash Bundren. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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22. Cash
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“It won’t balance. If they want it to tote and ride on a balance, they will have …”
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34. Darl
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“Jewel shouts at the horse…He is just above the top of the ford and the horse has a purchase of some sort for it surges forward, shining wetly half out of water…Cash is half turned, the reins running taut from his hand and disappearing into the water, the other hand reached back upon Addie, holding her jammed over against the high side of the wagon.”
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40. Addie
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“So I took Anse. And when I knew that I had Cash, I knew that living was terrible and that this was the answer to it. That was when I learned that words are no good; that words don’t ever fit even what they are trying to say at.”
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46. Darl
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“It feels fine…It’s cold. It feels fine…It feels fine”
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53. Cash
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“Sometimes I aint so sho who’s got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint…It’s like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it’s the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
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59. Cash
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“It’s Cash and Jewel and Vardaman and Dewey Dell…Meet Mrs. Bundren.”
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