English 1102 January 17 2008 Abner Snopes a Flat but Complex Character Abner Snopes in William Faulkners Barn Burning is a flat yet amazingly complex and intense character 160 To speak of him as flat is to borrow E M Forsters term Roberts and Jacobs 157 and also to note that in this story this character does not change or grow Yet the force of the characterization the potency and impact of it go beyond what one usually expects to find in a flat character In fact Faulkner could have gotten away
A father is a figure typically known for his power to protect and the desire to love his family However this is not the case in Barn Burning by William Faulkner Abner Snopes sharecrops to make a living for his family He despises wealthy people Out of resentment for wealthy people he commits crimes in order to create chaos against his victims His deeds force his family to move constantly William Faulkner characterizes Abner by his cold hearted actions and his unchanging personality to help us as
Barn Burning by William Faulkner provides a good example of how the conflicting loyalties can affect many decisions one makes In Faulkner s story Sarty is facing a dilemma It seems that no matter where the family moves due to Abners anger conflicts will never stop On one hand Sarty has the morals that society has put in him from his father On the other hand Sarty has loyalty to his father because of the blood shared with them and the fact that his father raised him Ultimately it is these confli
Barn Burning Response William Faulkner is arguably one of the greatest writers of southern gothic literature of all time Faulkner spent most of his life in the south in Oxford Mississippi It was there where he created his fictional place that most of his short stories and novels were set This fictional world he created was closely based on his surroundings and interactions in Oxford Mississippi All of Faulkners works need to be read more than once because there is always something more undernea
Loyalty to Sartys family or justice and law Barn Burning is by the famous author William Faulkner The story is about Abner Snopes family which is a part of the poor people in the society Faulkner writes this story after the Civil War A story is full of symbols and themes that bring to light the sociological changes happened in post Civil War era One of the most important themes is the loyalty to the family or to the society and law In the story Faulkner expresses this theme of loyalty through S
In William Faulkners Barn Burning the main character is Colonel Sartoris Snopes or Sarty for short who is torn between loyalty to his father and morality and this story deals with that struggle Sarty is a round character changing through the story as he moves from sticking to his own blood to thinking more of himself and his own good At first he is extremely loyal to his father but as him and his family later realizes that what his father does is not right Sarty realizes that this is simply an
In the interesting dynamic story of Barn Burning by William Faulkner Sartoris finds himself between a rock and a hard place There seems to be a sense of moral code between the Snopes family It is a different sense of moral codeit is more of an utter loyalty to the family vs whats actually wrong and right Their whole family exhibits a sense of being on the outskirts of society and not really socially accepted is what I take from it William Faulkners characters in Barn Burning are possessed drive
Comparison and Contrast Barn Burning Sartoris Snopes is a young boy with a major conflict in his life be true to his blood or tell the truth His father a shady character with very cruel intentions has had to relocate his family because he is a barn burner After one of Sartys fathers pigs gets loose for the second time one of his neighbors tells him he can have it back for a dollar fee which angers the father so much that he burns down the neighbors barn So Sartys father is asked to appear befor