Read this excerpt from the point of view of Addie Bundren's son Jewel in As I Lay Dying: And now them others sitting there, like buzzards. Waiting, fanning themselves. Because I said If you wouldn't keep

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Read this excerpt from the point of view of Addie Bundren's son Jewel in As I Lay

Dying:
And now them others sitting there, like buzzards. Waiting,
fanning themselves. Because I said If you wouldn't keep on
sawing and nailing at it until a man cant sleep even and her
hands laying on the quilt like two of them roots dug up and tried
to wash and you couldn't get them clean. I can see the fan and
Dewey Dell's arm. I said if you'd just let her alone.
Which statement best explains how Faulkner uses a Modernist technique in this
passage?
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A. He captures the frustrated, disjointed way Jewel is thinking and feeling.
O
B. He omits large portions of the narrative to force readers to draw their
own conclusions.
O
C. He creates a character who is angry and impatient and who talks to
himself.
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D. He uses inconsistent punctuation to show that Jewel is mentally
unstable