# Anse Bundren — As I Lay Dying character guide

> Anse Bundren in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.

**Role:** major

**Also known as:** Anse Bundren, A Bundren, Anse, Poor Anse

**First appearance:** 0010-anse

## Who they are

Patriarch of the Bundren family, determined to bury his wife in Jefferson.

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