he story of “Barn Burning” is a sad one. It is written with a conflictive approach and this gives a very controversial effect. The main characters are Abner and his son Sartoris.
To understand the story you have to understand the characters and what shapes their decision. Starting with Sartoris, in his world, violence is a fundamental element of manhood, something he knows all too well from living with his father. And exemplified when his father say’s “You’re getting to be a man” (snopes 2) after hitting him. Sartoris is impressionable, inarticulate, and subject to his father’s potentially corrupting influence, but he is also infused with a sense of justice. This is revealed in his later scene with the de Spain house. His father, Abner Snopes,
To understand the story you have to understand the characters and what shapes their decision. Starting with Sartoris, in his world, violence is a fundamental element of manhood, something he knows all too well from living with his father. And exemplified when his father say’s “You’re getting to be a man” (snopes 2) after hitting him. Sartoris is impressionable, inarticulate, and subject to his father’s potentially corrupting influence, but he is also infused with a sense of justice. This is revealed in his later scene with the de Spain house. His father, Abner Snopes,