In Barn Burning the setting is a time when people drove horse wagons and the workingmen were generally farmers. The major character in this story is Colonel Sartoris Snopes, called Sarty by his family who is a ten-year-old boy. In the beginning, Sarty is portrayed as a confused and frightened young boy. He is in … Read more
In William Faulkners story, Barn Burning, we find a young man who struggles with the relationship he has with his father. We see Sarty, the young man, develop into an adult while dealing with the many crude actions and ways of Abner, his father. We see Sarty as a puzzled youth who faces the questions … Read more
Michael Meyer suggests that the description of the de Spain mansion in paragraph 41 of “Barn Burning” reveals Sarty’s conflict. What does this mansion represent in Sarty’s mind? How does that symbolism conflict with Sarty’s being loyal to his father? The description of the house helps to frame the main conflicts that Sarty had with … Read more
As “Barn Burning” opens, an adolescent boy named Sartoris Snopes is in court, hoping he will not have to testify in the arson case against his father — a charge of which Sarty knows Mr. Snopes is absolutely guilty. The judge, whom Sarty perceives as kindly, is nonetheless Sarty’s enemy because he is his father’s … Read more