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 secure ...

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