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William Faulkners "Barn Burning"
Commentary by Karen Bernardo
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. ...
Sarty’s family are itinerant farmers, but they move around even more often than is typical because of his father’s habit of burning something down every time he gets angry. ... " Sarty does not know that his father can just as easily bring down a big plantation as a cow barn. ... At the story’s beginning, when Sarty was ready to testify that his father did not burn down that barn, he would have done it because a son’s job is to stick to his father. ... "Fathers and Sons: The Spiritual Quest in Faulkners Barn Burning. ... "Historia y sociedad en Barn Burning de William Faulkner. ... "Family and Community in Faulkners Barn Burning. ... "Barn Burning: Debating the American Adam. ... "Burning Barns in Warren and Faulkner. ... "Literature and the Writing Process: A Pedagogical Reading of William Faulkners Barn Burning. ... "Faulkners Barn Burning and OConnors Everything That Rises Must Converge. ... "Faulkners Barn Burning: Sartys Conflict Reconsidered.
Approximate Word count = 967
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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