"As I Lay Dying" - Style 1

In Cash's chapter after he finishes the coffin,  Faulkner's style completely changes from prose with South-Eastern syntax and diction and mostly their person point of view to numbered lists divided by sentence and is framed by first person. 

The purpose of this change in style is to emphasize how Cash deals with his grief, similarly to the slight changes as each character narrates their grief over Annie's death. Cash seems to be very logical,and spends all his time working on his mother's coffin, so Faulkner conveys this aspect of Cash by making his chapter like an instruction manual of his reasoning as well has how to build a coffin correctly. This chapter's style also represents Cash's calmness as everyone else in his family transforms with their grief.  As the list goes on, the sentences being to form into couplets, as if he is writing down his thoughts and they branch off of each other. An example of this is scentences 6 and 7, which together seem to be one thought, but are broken up for emphasis. 

One thing that confuses me stylistically about this chapter is the purpose of the numbers, other than to create the feeling of an instruction manual. However, it seems that the numbers correlate to every scentence in the chapter, but numbers three and four have two scentences each. I think that the idea of the couplets later in the chapter, combined with these two sections of sentence pairs supports the idea that each number represents a thought in Cash's logical, calm, carpentry-centered brain as he finishes his mother's coffin.