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As I Lay Dying Section Forty-Five, narrated by Moseley
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Section Forty-Five, narrated by Moseley
- The family arrives in Mottson.
- Dewey Dell enters a drugstore and indirectly asks for the druggist, Moseley, to give her something to abort her two-month-old baby. She offers him the ten dollars Lafe gave her.
- Moseley refuses to do so, advising Dewey Dell to take the ten dollars and marry Lafe.
- One of the boys goes in a hardware store to buy cement for Cash’s leg.
- The marshal says cement will kill Cash, a Vardaman Bundren ld corpse. In fact, all the townspeople are offended and disturbed by the Bundrens and their traveling corpse party.
- Anse defends his family by bombarding the citizens with all of the obstacles they’ve encountered thus far.
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- Section One, narrated by Darl
- Section Two, narrated by Cora
- Section Three, narrated by Darl
- Section Four, narrated by Jewel
- Section Five, narrated by Darl
- Section Six, narrated by Cora
- Section Seven, narrated by Dewey Dell
- Section Eight, narrated by Tull
- Section Nine, narrated by Anse
- Section Ten, narrated by Darl
- Section Eleven, narrated by Peabody
- Section Twelve, narrated by Darl
- Section Thirteen, narrated by Vardaman
- Section Fourteen, narrated by Dewey Dell
- Section Fifteen, narrated by Vardaman
- Section Sixteen, narrated by Tull
- Section Seventeen, narrated by Darl
- Section Eighteen, narrated by Cash
- Section Nineteen, narrated by Vardaman
- Section Twenty, narrated by Tull
- Section Twenty-One, narrated by Darl
- Section Twenty-Two, narrated by Cash
- Section Twenty-Three, narrated by Darl
- Section Twenty-Four, narrated by Vardaman
- Section Twenty-Five, narrated by Darl
- Section Twenty-Six, narrated by Anse
- Section Twenty-Seven, narrated by Darl
- Section Twenty-Eight, narrated by Anse
- Section Twenty-Nine, narrated by Samson
- Section Thirty, narrated by Dewey Dell
- Section Thirty-One, narrated by Tull
- Section Thirty-Two, narrated by Darl
- Section Thirty-Three, narrated by Tull
- Section Thirty-Four, narrated by Darl
- Section Thirty-Five, narrated by Vardaman
- Section Thirty-Six, narrated by Tull
- Section Thirty-Seven, narrated by Darl
- Section Thirty-Eight, narrated by Cash
- Section Thirty-Nine, narrated by Cora
- Section Forty, narrated by Addie
- Section Forty-One, narrated by Whitfield
- Section Forty-Two, narrated by Darl
- Section Forty-Three, narrated by Armstid
- Section Forty-Four, narrated by Vardaman
- Section Forty-Five, narrated by Moseley
- Section Forty-Six, narrated by Darl
- Section Forty-Seven, narrated by Vardaman
- Section Forty-Eight, narrated by Darl
- Section Forty-Nine, narrated by Vardaman
- Section Fifty, narrated by Darl
- Section Fifty-One, narrated by Vardaman
- Section Fifty-Two, narrated by Darl
- Section Fifty-Three, narrated by Cash
- Section Fifty-Four, narrated by Peabody
- Section Fifty-Five, narrated by MacGowan
- Section Fifty-Six, narrated by Vardaman
- Section Fifty-Seven, narrated by Darl
- Section Fifty-Eight, narrated by Dewey Dell
- Section Fifty-Nine, narrated by Cash
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