finitely make Anse do some work. "The shirt across pa's hump is faded lighter than the rest of it. There is no sweat stain on his shirt. I have never seen a sweat stain on his shirt. He was sick once from working in the sun when he was twenty-two years old and he tells people that if he ever sweats, he will die. I suppose he believes it.-Darl This quote totally shows Anse in his element, lying or embellishing a bit, so he can get out of work. As it said he has not worked a hard day since he was twenty-two. This is definitely a reason people like Addie and Cora hate him. As he sits in his rickety chair in the shade ( out of the suns harmful rays ) everyone else works and he sits there probably getting fat on his own saliva, barking orders when he deems them necessary, and naturally many people resent him for this. Addie, who resents him the most, has worked all of her life and is most sad when she works hard as it is but still can't provide for Jewel's saddle. She is the opposite of Anse who would rather accept things with a Cavalier attitude or make sure it takes no sweat off his back to achieve something . Addie makes it an aspect of her revenge to make Anse work to get her in the ground .To finally make him sweat figuratively and physically. By Anse hating to work, making him do it would be fundamental in making him suffer, which is Addie's plight. In Anse's attempt to thwart the revenge of the dead lady, he uses an especially interesting and unique way of getting out of Addie's work detail. Throughout the trip to Jefferson Anse berates any person in his family who says something slightly ill about Addie. Anse can be seen with such quips as " It just ain't right" or "it's little enough to do for her" and who could forget the repeated " it's a deliberate floutin' of her and me" In short Anse is saying no one cares about his dear Addie except poor old him. The funny thing is even though he says this, and it w...
