ESSAY ON: William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” and Sarty Snopes’ Revelation

Number of Pages 5

This research paper: This 5 page report discusses William Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning” published in 1939. In it, Faulkner tells about the Snopes family. Ab Snopes is a poor sharecropper and onetime horsethief who takes out his frustrations against the post-Civil War aristocracy by burning barns. Colonel Sartoris “Sarty” Snopes is his adolescent son, who detests his father’s destructiveness. Ultimately, Sarty has to make a choice between family loyalty and fundamental morality. Bibliography lists 2 sources.


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