"We need to remind ourselves that words have no value in themselves - that is their value"(Semiotics For Beginners). This quote reminds me of Addie's view on words. Addie believes that words represents what is lacking, because the people who invented words such as "love" or "pride" have never actually felt them. Vardaman used what things were lacking to make sense of situations. For example, when Cash broke his leg, Vardaman kept saying over and over that Cash was his brother, who had a broken leg, but Darl didn't have a broken leg, and he didn't have a broken leg. Again, Vardaman uses semiotics and manages to say Darl by not saying Darl. "And I saw something Dewey Dell told me not to tell nobody. It is not about pa and it is not about Cash and it is not about Jewel and it is not about Dewey Dell and it is not about me"(Faulkner 215). Vardaman doesn't tell who what he saw was about, and by not telling he gives it away. Addie doesn't care who she's with, she just wants it to be not-Anse. She's a very different person than Reverend Whitfield, because she believes strongly in taking action rather than just saying things whereas Reverend Whitfield is content on repenting to air. Because Whitfield is not-Anse, Addie accepts him as a lover. Not-Anse becomes a real adjective to her, and something that she looks for in a person.
"Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler." Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler. Web. 8 Dec. 2014. <http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/S4B/semiotic.>
"Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler." Semiotics for Beginners by Daniel Chandler. Web. 8 Dec. 2014. <http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/S4B/semiotic.>