How Is Dewey Dell Unreliable

The caricatures of imperfections in humanity and the connection of the characters to their religion and how they represent it symbolically is furthered by the variety of, mostly unreliable, narrators. The characters have different traits that make them unreliable. Vardaman is argued to either be about six years old or a teenager who is mentally challenged. He does not give a coherent account of anything because he repeats things like "Cash is my brother" and "Jewel is my brother" and "my mother is a fish" and "Jewel's mother is a horse" and doesn't tell a tale when he speaks. He makes comments that make you assume what happened, like when Dewey Dell told him not to saying anything about what he saw right before the scene where Jewel saved Addie
The reader can learn valuable information about the aspects of the family members that they will never say themselves.
For example, Peabody acknowledges that Anse is lazy and waits too long to do what is necessary while
Anse would say he is selective about his activities based on the Lord's will. Armstid and Tull give clearer, depictions of the situations in which the family finds themselves as they have an outside perspective the family does not. This in and of itself makes them more reliable. The two men working drug stores describe Dewey Dell as naïve, which furthers what had been shown through symbolism previously as she is connected to the cow and described much like an animal throughout the novel. Cora's devotion to her faith illustrates the improper ways in which the caricatures of humanity, the Bundrens, cling to and interpret their beliefs.
The religious symbolism and theme of imperfection in humanity are furthered by the unreliability of the narrators as it makes plain how the symbols are used, the traits and motivations that make them unreliable and therefore imperfect, and how the outside perspective is more reliable in comparison to the family members close to the