mother’s bedroom. He thinks that it is just the same way to say that Cash wants their mother to die as soon as possible.
It’s because he stays out there, right under the window, hammering and sawing on that goddamn box. Where she’s got to see him. Where every breath she draws
is full of his knocking and sawing where she can see him saying See. See what a good one I am making for you. I told him to go somewhere else. I said Good
God do you want to see her in it. Faulkner, 24
His love towards his mother can be seen when he said that if it is up to him, he will spend his last moments with his mother in a quite and peaceful place.
If it had just been me when Cash fell off of that church and if had just been me when pa laid sick with that load of wood fell on him, it would not be happening
with every bastard in this county coming and stare at her because if there is a God what the hell is He for. It would just be me and her on a high hill and me
rolling the rocks down the hill at their faces, picking them up and throwing them down the hill faces and teeth and all by God until she was quiet and not that
goddamn adze going One lick less. Faulkner, 25
Based on that monolog it can be seen how much Jewel loves his mother. He is angry toward everybody who comes to Bundren’s house because he thinks that they
treat his mother in a wrong way.
4.1.6 Brave
Jewel is a brave person. This characteristic can be seen from his daily life. Even though this brave characteristic sometimes is quite hard to be differentiated with his
temperamental character. There is one moment when he has a verbal fight with his father upon the horse which he buys with his own money. His father is angry at him
because he thinks that without even having a horse their family is already in a bad economy situation.
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“So you bought a horse,” he said. “You went behind my back and bought a horse . You never consulted me; you
know how tight it is for us to make by, yet you bought a horse for me to feed. Taken the work from your flesh and blood and bought a horse with it.”
Jewel looked at pa, his eyes paler than ever. “He wont never eat a mouthful of yours.” He said.
“Not a mouthful. I’ll kill him first. Don’t you never think it. Don’t you never.” Faulkner, 128-129
In this dialogue, it is clearly seen that Jewel shows his bravery in defending something, which he thinks to be right. His brave characteristic does not only play an
important role in his daily life but also during the journey to Jefferson. The most significant proof is when Jewel saves his mother’s coffin when Darl tries to burn it
down, in order to put an end to this journey. We see his shoulders strain as he upends the coffin and slides it single-handed
from the sawhorses. …
Then it topples forward, gaining momentum, revealing Jewel and the sparks raining on him too in engendering gusts, so that he appears to be enclosed in a
thin nimbus of fire. Without stopping it overends and rears again, pauses, then crashes slowly forward and through the curtain. This time Jewel is riding upon
it, clinging to it, until it crashes down and flings him forward and clear and Mack leaps forward into a thin smell of scorching meat and slaps at the
widening crimson-edged holes that bloom like flowers in his undershirt. Faulkner, 211-212
Jewel’s bravery in some occasions is a great advantage, not only for himself but also for his family. However, his bravery sometimes must end up with a great loss. It
can be seen from the second incident where he decides to save his mother’s coffin from a burned barn, all by himself. Because of that action, his back is burned so heavy,
even though he manages to survive.
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4.1.7 Temperamental
