As I Lay Dying - Symbols

Question 1

fish

Answer 1

symbolizes addie’s identity

Question 2

cows

Answer 2

symbolizes dewey dell as an animalistic matriarch

Question 3

horse

Answer 3

symbolizes jewel’s love for addie and ability to break away from his family

Question 4

coffin

Answer 4

ultimate act of burying the coffin requires them to take risks and burden themselves with delivering it to jefferson. the burn then requires the family to become burdens themselves to people around them

Question 5

tools

Answer 5

represent need for survival

Question 6

answers

Answer 6

• defined by the reader
• as a means to emphasize
• it symbolizes isolation, death
• control
• play the “association” game