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As I Lay Dying Section Forty-Five, narrated by Moseley

By William Faulkner

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.