"Peabody Tries to Help Addie"
This chapter links up with a former chapter, Anse I, and gives us a clearer and more objective picture of what Anse was referring to. Peabody, a big boy (225 lb.), knows it's too late for Addie if Anse actually got off his keister to call him himself. It's significant that he dubs the situation "the face of the cyclone" (42), considering what all is going to happen with both the story and the weather.
Peabody is among a number of outsiders in the story who get to narrate; this allows us to see an objective view from time to time. Faulkner is really good at changing things up and not letting us get too deep into the crazy people's heads.
Addie, strangely enough, dismisses Peabody, and calls out for Cash. Here's Peabody's take:
"I have seen it before in women. Seen them drive from the room them coming with sympathy and pity, with actual help, and clinging to some trifling animal to whom they never were more than pack-horses." (45)
Faulkner is criticizing/ridiculing a number of things in this chapter. Can you identify them all?
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