Ch 8: "Bittersweet Symphony" -The Verve

"Bittersweet Symphony" -The Verve

This song represents the ending of this book so well. In the song the singer talks about how he cannot change his place in society; everyone has a "mold" and that will never change:

No change, I can change

I can change, I can change

But I'm here in my mold

I am here in my mold

And I'm a million different people

from one day to the next

I can't change my mold

No, no, no, no, no

I can't change

I can't change

 At the end of the novel when they finally bury Addie it seems like Dewey Dell might be able to break from her mold and become something besides the roles that her family have placed upon her. She could change; there is that hope, but then Anse introduces his new wife and it seems like life has come full circle. I imagine this song playing in her mind as she is told that she will have to go back to being under someone else's orders and that she will never be free. Addie's death, to Dewey Dell, must seem "bittersweet" in that with it she got the chance to go to town and possibly get the abortion that she has been wanting, but it doesn't happen and the worst part is, again, the idea that Dewey Dell's life has just come full circle.