Essays on Barn Burning

In William Faulkner’s Barn Burning, there are only a few characters introduced. Many of these characters are static, yet somehow Faulkner is able to provide a complex story with those characters and the few dynamic ones. Faulkner himself held a few occupations apart from being…

A young boy torn between obeying his father and doing what he knows to be right presents the internal conflict of the story “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner. In the story, Abner Snopes, a violent and wayward man with an affinity for burning down buildings,…

Moral dilemmas can sometimes become complex. In Barn Burning, there are several different scenes where a character is in a moral dilemma. Most of the moral conflicts take place from the perspective of Sarty. His father travels around with their family in attempts to provide…