Addie Bundren uses language as a vehicle to assert her power. Like Darl, Addie realizes the limits and restrictions that language creates; use language to signify what is lost. His narrative chapter is in the center of the novel and uses very little italics in his speech. Unlike Caddy, in Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Addie is the character that surrounds the novel, but she is also given a voice. It is in her chapter that the reader becomes aware that Addie wanted her body taken to Jefferson for burial as a sort of retaliation on Anse's part for Darl's birth. Addie hadn't really wanted to be a mother, or a wife for that matter. Addie, an eloquent schoolteacher, married Anse, a crude and uneducated farmer. Marriage and children result in a loss of words and linguistic and literal imprisonment for Addie. She seemed to be trying to find meaning in actions and was struggling with the concept of words and how they can never truly mean what they are actually intended to mean. For Addie, words are never enough to express her thoughts and experiences. and language cannot articulately convey an emotion or concept. like marriage, love and the mother are too limiting, vague and restrictive to fully translate their meaning and interpretation. In Addie's section, she italicizes the names "Anse," "Cash," and "Darl" to emphasize them as names that represent more. As Addie mentioned, "I was thinking about the name until after a while I could see the word as a form... Whatever they call them." (Faulkner 165) Addie seemed determined to prove the absurdity of words, especially words that were titles. Addie became a wife and mother because that was what was expected of a woman at that time. However, through...... middle of paper...... speech. Just as it is sometimes implausible to think that Faulkner's characters have the education to support their often poetic and stylistic language, it is equally puzzling to construct the inner thoughts of a character's subconscious. However, it is precisely this use of experimental equations of language that forms Faulkner's modernist monologues. Deconstructing Faulkner's writing style can provide insight into his text, but the most fundamental way to understand Faulkner is to interpret the language of the heart with that of the mind. Faulkner has been called a modernist and a misogynist. It is Faulkner, the humanist, who describes it best. His process of using language to construct and recreate the flaws, triumphs, and essence of what is distinctly human is why scholars continue to examine his works, regardless of the answers given..