"Darl is Dang Lonely"
Darl imagines how the completion of the coffin must have went. Cash finishes it with help from Tull, while Anse is of no use: Anse "lifts his face, slack-mouthed" (76) at the rain, like a turkey. Cash has to arrange for the shelter of the lamp himself. They take the coffin in the house.
"...again he looks up at the sky with that expression of dumb and brooding outrage and yet of vindication, as though he had expected no less" (77-78).
Darl has a strange meditation on his loneliness, sleep, awareness, and existence in general (80-81). It wouldn't hurt to chart this, as there must be some philosophical depths to be explored.
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