Only daughter of the Bundren family, and the second youngest child. He loves horses and is physically powerful. Secretly, he is the illegitimate child of the minister Whitfield.
He lacks Darl's sublime imagination and sensitivity, but he is nonetheless a relatively compassionate and trustworthy narrator. Although his monologues are few in number and unrevealing for most of the novel, his voice comes to dominate the closing events. Cash is a carpenter, and his identity is wrapped up in his work. There is nothing overtly hostile about him mostly he comes off as a weak and irritating man, but his decisions cause real harm throughout the book. He is a begrudging father, without real love or concern for his children. He unimaginatively applies himself to his wife's wish, but the physical and mental cost to his family is tremendous. The transport of her body is the main event of the novel. She also had a secret affair with Whitfield, resulting in the birth of Jewel. Once a schoolteacher, she married Anse and gave birth to four children by him: Cash, Darl, Dewey Dell, and Vardaman. She has always wanted to be buried among her birth family in Jefferson. Gravely ill at the start of the novel, she dies early on. He is at an age where he is becoming conscious of his status as a country boy (as opposed to a town boy), and he wonders why it should be so. His mother's death is extremely traumatizing, and his sensitive and imaginative nature is thrown out of balance by the event. Vardaman seems to teeter on the brink of mental collapse early on.
The youngest son of the family, and the second most frequently used narrator of the novel. He is eloquent, intelligent, and isolated. Everything we know about these characters is told to us through the lens of a subjective speaker because of Darl's sensitivity and isolation from the other characters, most readers come to rely heavily on his version of events. One of the challenges of the novel is the complete absence of an objective third-person narrator. For much of the novel, he acts as a kind of narrative anchor. Some of the interior monologues are fairly straightforward, but Darl's passages are stream-of-consciousness narrative. He is sensitive, intuitive, and intelligent, and his monologues are some of the most eloquent they are also a more intricate representation of the process of thought. Darl is the first and most important narrator of the novel. The second oldest son of the Bundren family.
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