Barn Burning Faulkner
"Barn Burning" is a sad story because it very clearly shows the
classical struggle between the "privileged" and the "underprivileged" classes.
Time after time emotions of despair surface from both the protagonist and the
antagonist involved in the story.
This story outlines two distinct protagonists and two distinct
antagonists. The first two are Colonel Sartoris Snopes ("Sarty") and his father
Abner Snopes ("Ab"). Sarty is the protagonist surrounded by his father
antagonism whereas Ab is the protagonist antagonized by the social structure and
the struggle that is imposed on him and his family.
The economic status of the main characters is poor, without hope of
improving their condition, and at the mercy of a quasi-feudal system in North
America during the late 1800's. Being a sharecropper, Ab and his family had to
share half or two-thirds of the harvest with the landowner and out of their
share pay for the......
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