As I Lay Dying In this section, Darl’s unspoken thoughts as he walks towards the house are recorded; he notices many things in his environment, for instance, that, although he is walking ahead of his brother Jewel, anyone watching them from the house would still be able to see Jewel’s head. We deduce from this that Jewel must be much taller than Darl. COMMENTARY: The words in this section are unspoken thoughts, none of them going beyond the possible limits of Darl’s vocabulary. It is significant that Jewel is the very first word in the section, for we later discover that Darl is obsessively jealous of him. When he thinks ‘anyone watching us from the cottonhouse can see Jewel’s frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own’, we realise that Darl is revealing his concern with how Jewel and he are regarded in a wider context, especially by Addie