![]() His mother's death is extremely traumatizing, and his sensitive and imaginative nature is thrown out of balance by the event. Vardaman seems to teeter on the brink of mental collapse early on. The youngest son of the family, and the second most frequently used narrator of the novel. He is eloquent, intelligent, and isolated. Everything we know about these characters is told to us through the lens of a subjective speaker because of Darl's sensitivity and isolation from the other characters, most readers come to rely heavily on his version of events. One of the challenges of the novel is the complete absence of an objective third-person narrator. For much of the novel, he acts as a kind of narrative anchor. Some of the interior monologues are fairly straightforward, but Darl's passages are stream-of-consciousness narrative. ![]() He is sensitive, intuitive, and intelligent, and his monologues are some of the most eloquent they are also a more intricate representation of the process of thought. ![]() Darl is the first and most important narrator of the novel. ![]() The second oldest son of the Bundren family. ![]()
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