Anse only really cared about himself and only did things to benefit himself. “God's will be done,” he says. “Now I can get those teeth” (52). The main reason Anse got along with the rest of the family was not to help them or respect Addie's final wish, but to benefit from having new teeth. Anse's biggest betrayal of his family and Addie was getting remarried. "A beaten dog type and proud too, with teeth and all, even if he wasn't looking at us." Meet Mrs. Bundren," he says (261). Anse didn't have enough respect to wait a few days after Addie's death to remarry, instead he remarried shortly after her death. This also shows his selfishness by not caring how the rest of the family might feel. Each member of the family gave up something on the trip to Jefferson, unlike Anse who simply benefited from the trip without caring about how others felt or what Jewel Bundren's character was going through she seemed to betray her family and mother by not showing affection to others and having a rigid and rude mentality, but Jewel was the only one who really cared about bringing her mother to Jefferson Jewel showed her honor and courage to her family crossing the river with his family when it wasn't safe, but he knew he had to do it to fulfill his mother's dying wish “Let Jewel take the end of the rope and cross it upstream from us and hold her up.” (146). This states how Jewel is brave and takes the lead in traveling to Jefferson to get things