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Explanation:
Faulkner uses Darl’s first section to situate him as a reliable, straightforward narrator. The details that Darl includes are all relevant to later events: the heat makes the trip to Jefferson unbearable with a corpse, Tull’s wagon is how they transport the coffin, and the coffin is what Cash is building.
Darl mentions that Jewel’s eyes are "like wood"; this image becomes much more significant when Vardaman drills two holes in the coffin.
Unlike Darl’s first section, which is rather straightforward, Cora’s section reveals the duplicitous nature of language. First, she is talking about cakes while dealing with a dying woman. Secondly, she insists Addie will get better while her interior monologue reveals just the opposite. Faulkner is making the reader conscious of the nature of language and truth.
Addie’s eyes are described in this section first like "two candles when you watch them gutter down into the sockets of iron candle-sticks" and later, Cora says, "When she finds me watching her, her eyes go blank." In these two instances, the eyes reveal how close Addie is to death.
