Barn Burning's William Faulkner

He views the judge as kindly but an "enemy", because the judge is a affright to his father. At this stage, Sarty's good reasoning is based on gratify his father but by the end of Barn animated he will develop past this stage of piety and make decisions based on his own feelings of right and wrong.

Sarty lives in squalor, with an aggressive and hostile father who burns things in anger. The family has no friends and no roots to community because of this. All Sarty has as a role model and confidant is his abusive father, an embittered sharecropper. Because Abner is all Sarty has, Sarty makes each effort to please him, even when he believes his father's actions are wrong. Threats of forsaking also make Sarty willing to forego his own moral code to please his father. When Abner nonices Sarty's reluctance to testify, he tells him "You got to learn to overreach to your own blood or you ain't going

to have any blood to stick to you" (Faulkner 219).

When Barn hot starts, Sarty's bond with his father overrides his own moral code, "He aims chance variable me to lie?and I will have to do it" (Faulkner 217).

However, equable young enough to know his search for "peace and high-handedness" is akin to right action, he tears himself away from his father's crime and acts on his own moral code.

While Sarty's youth puts him in this dilemma, it is also his youth that enables him to morally develop past his family bond. He is described as carrying the "terrible burden of being young, the wanton weight of his few years" (Faulkner 225). He also carries the with child(p) burden of knowing his father is wrong. However, because he is young and not corrupted, he has the capacity to resolve his internal struggle. He has not been oppressed and defeated like his father, who turned to violence and wipeout in his frustration. He i
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