As I Lay Dying Section Fifty-One, narrated by Vardaman Summary

The cement around Cash’s leg is blackened. Anse tries to break the cast off.
Gillespie wonders why they ever put cement on it without greasing it up first. Anse claims he had the boy’s best interest at heart.
Darl is nowhere to be found until Vardaman sees him lying on Addie’s coffin, crying.
Dewey Dell applies a butter ointment onto Jewel’s burnt back.
Darl continues to cry over Addie’s coffin while Vardaman tries to console him.