One of the themes in the novel acknowledges that all humans live in solitude and solidarity at the same time. How? Addie has the ability to control her family even after her presence leaving the physical world. She cannot fathom the attitudes of people in the universe's human nature (Bakker, 229). Darl's feelings with the world are the results of the absence of his mother. This explains him living as an outsider (Bakker, 227). Darl encounters feelings of Addie's presence not being with him making him mad. On the alternative, Addie's daughter, Dewey Dill, is struck with betrayal and trapping which leaves her no time to mourn over her mother's death (Bakker, 231). According to Jan Bakker, "Only Anse, the husband, has profited, and the irony here is in line with the irony of life, which does not concern itself with equity but distributes rewards or punishments regardless of our moral, or lack of moral worth. That this may give us the impression that we live in a mad world rather than in a sane one, is also in keeping with the vision that informs Faulkner's novel." They are in high spirits as they fulfill Addie's wish to bury her next to her father's grave in Jefferson. Even Dale does not upset the family as this occurs (Bakker, 222). "The description of the crossing itself is brilliantly done. Faulkner's technique enables us to watch it from different points of view, and the composite picture that is thus built up in the reader's mind acquires a larger-than-life vividness and intensity, without its losing touch with reality, too, Jan Bakker declares. The sheer insanity of human nature absolutely baffles one and no attitude, excluding only the most enlightened, can solve the problems present in Faulkner's works (Bakker, 231). "For in the final analysis one does not feel let down by the book. It is the furious energy one feels pulsing in the writing itself that keeps us buoyed, that works as a tonic in revitalizing our sluggishness in the face of the intractable stuff life is made of," states Jan Bakker.