The Truth Revealed in As I Lay Dying Addie Bundren evokes the central darkness resulting from her death and directly or indirectly causes actions in which each of Bundren's characters benefits from Addie. With the character's actions revolving around his death, William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying reveals the truth about the people around a person who may take advantage of him. Addie Bundren's death shapes all of the character's actions in life, including Addie's final request before her death. Addie takes advantage of her death by using it for revenge and inflicting final suffering on some characters, while the other characters use her to get what they want for their personal needs. Addie causes all the painful actions around her family directly or indirectly. Addie is mostly the main abuser of her impending death in As I Lay Dying. She predetermines the time of her death and ensures that people in her family who she dislikes must experience her wrath before moving on to the next life. “Addie is the one who is dying, but she causes the revenge to spread throughout the family and extend beyond” (Wadlington 35). Inflicting pain especially on Anse, Addie enjoys it. Anse, a lazy man, is forced by his wife to take her to Jefferson to be buried as a last request. Addie's revenge on Anse was the reward for all the times he sat back while Addie, his children, and sometimes neighbors did all the hard work for him. Furthermore, “Addie reacts to Anse's dry conventionality by having a clandestine affair with Minister Whitfield” (Wadlington 31). Addie also indirectly hurts one of her favorite sons, Cash. Cash gets hurt indirectly when he helps! his relatives carry his mother's coffin to Jefferson, where on the trail he breaks his leg while crossing a flooded river. Although Cash is one of Addie's favorites besides Jewel, Addie's cruel revenge takes its toll on Cash's broken leg, which later becomes infected. Besides his indirect action on Cash's leg, Cash is Addie's favorite. As Wadlington states, “He is largely his mother's son in expressing his feelings through physical action rather than words, building a coffin for the mother he loves” (Wadlington 41). Jewel, Addie's second favorite after Cash, seems to be cursed by her callous mother.