A Critical Approach To "Barn Burning" (by William Faulkner)

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the story. Sarty, his
brother and the twin sisters have no access to education, as they must
spend their time working in the fields or at home performing familial
duties. Nutrition is lacking “He could smell the coffee from the room
where they would presently eat the cold food remaining from the mid-
afternoon meal” (PARA. 55). As a consequence, poor health combined with
inadequate opportunity results in low morale. A morale which the writer is
identifying with the middle class of his times “that same quality which in
later years would cause his descendants to over-run the engine before
putting a motor car into motion” (PARA. 20)

The Snope family manages to survive and find work. However, the
work offers little other than a chance for survival “I reckon I'll have a
word with the man that aims to begin tomorrow owning me body and soul for
the next eight months” (PARA 40). Like nomads they were forced to move
constantly. Due to seasons and crop rotation, in order to ...

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