In William Faulkner's story, "As I Lay Dying", Dewey Dell is the only woman in the Bundren family. With many responsibilities and a baby on the way, she should be thought of as the most pitiable and pitiful Bundren family member. Dewey Dell's predicament reveals that she is stubborn and is clearly following the same behavior of many women in her same situation.
              Dewey Dell, while picking cotton in the field with Lafe, has an inner monologue debating where she will go into the secret shade. Dewey Dell says, "And so it was full when we came to the end of the row and I could not help it."(Falkner 27). We later learn that Dewey Dell and Lafe went into the secret shade to have sex. As well she becomes pregnant and with her mother dying and her young age she decides to seek out someone who will give her an abortion. Dewey Dell is the most pitiable because of many things see does. Lafe doesn't want the child either so he gave her 10 dollars to get an abortion and provides her with the information that she maybe able to get it at a drug store. Moseley owns the first drug store she reaches and it is clear that he feels pity for her. Because as he says to her, "go home and tell your pa of your brothers if you have any of the first man you come to in the road...and you can go back and tell him I said so – if he aint halfway to Texas by
             now, which I don't doubt"(Faulkner 202).
             Faulkner shows his point of view on the plight of women in her same condition by using Moseley. Moseley says, "Then I looked at her. But it's a hard life they have"(Faulkner 202). Moseley shows that he feels bad for her because during these times when women were not treated as equal to men and that religion had a big impact on the subject. And he is providing her with option of getting a shotgun wedding so that she will not have to go through the procedure that may kill her. The fact that she is pregnant ...