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In As I Lay Dying, it seems that Addie Bundren refused to say that her life was empty because of the event of death. At the same time, she boldly rejected the then popular perspective on death, represented by the judgment of God. However, the fact that she continued to live hard, recognizing death as an important event, appears in many places in William Faulkner’s novel. Addie was a female member of a poor, ‘white trash’ family, making a lot of effort on behalf of an incompetent husband and participating in many troubled decisions. For this reason, the village community members were mourning her death and participating as speakers. It is the attitude to and process of preparing for death that can analogize her view of death on another level. She organized her surroundings, told her son, a good carpenter, to make a coffin, supervised the making of a coffin, and planned a funeral journey that had a positive impact on her family. Her father's nihilistic view of death was forced by the patriarchal repression structure. The judgmental view of death, which Cora Tull, her neighbor explains and coerces, was forced by the religious repression structure. Addie tends to operate as a family center because she pursued her desires, ignoring religious oppression and patriarchy. She established her own view of life, her own view of death, and lived faithfully by it. She was finally ready to die.