Based on your knowledge of the characters in the parts you read of Faulkner's

As I Lay Dying, which of these thoughts belongs to Anse?

A. He holds the two planks on the trestle, fitted along the edges in a

quarter of the finished box.

B. You can see by an old grave that the earth sinks down on the

bevel

C. [S]he was ... well and hale as ere a woman ever were, except for

that road

D. In a bed where people lie down all the time, the joints and seams

are made sideways, because the stress is sideways.

She was ... well and hale as ere a woman ever were, except for that road.

Option - C

Explanation:

William Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING underlines the idea that death is a relief, a panache for the troubles, trials, and tribulations in the world.

Anse is the husband of Addie Bundren. With an attitude of complacency, he does not like to work. When he was young he fell sick. The reason was physical exposure to the sun. Since then he started finding one or the other excuse to not sweat i. e. not work.

He is portrayed as quite a mean character who is least perturbed even with the circumstance of the death of his wife and sees God's will in it.

In this statement, he is reflecting about the good health of his wife who though lay on the bed to rest as she was not keeping well. He thinks she died because of the road.

Through Anse, the author seems to be commenting upon the advent of modernity and also leads to doubts about the 'reality of sickness' of Addie. The reader does for a while pondering on the issue of whether the wife was really sick.