Comparing Faulkner's As I Lay Dying And A Rose For Emily

“Barn Burning” is a brief article that was dictated by an American writer--William Faulkner. It has been first released in Harpers in June of 1939. Faulkner, winner of a Nobel Prize for literature, and two Pulitzer Prizes, best known for his best-sellers “As I Lay Dying” and “The Sound and the Fury”, and for the short story “A Rose for Emily”. “Barn Burning” is generally taught and indiscriminate. It has gained the O. Henry prize the year it was advertised. Faulkner shows a characterization of Snopes. A ten year aged boy, Sarty Snopes, has to face a battle. Sarty’s father burns barns and he is undecided as to if he considers to allow the judges to know that his father encounters on two diverse incidents. In the first lawsuit, his father is

He encounters dealing with the reactions which are caused by his father’s actions, consequencing in him reflecting more for himself as the story continues. Abner’s vicious behavior, like flaming barns, destroying rugs, abusing family members, influence our idea of his character. Even though Abner’s actions are pretty unchanging, Sarty’s actions change depending on if he is trying to satisfy his father or himself. For instance, when Sarty tells the second Justice of the Peace that his father did not set Major de Spain’s barn on fire. He seems to act like a phony, like the son his father wants him to be. When Sarty agrees to act according to his own assumptions, he jeopardizes everything to tell Major de Spain the whole story. This defines him as a person who sees his commitment to himself and society as greater than his responsibility to his

Abner Snopes, pertains as “bloodless”, an adjective that only indicates his harsh, difficult, and strict attitude. Much of the thematic understanding of blood in the story has to do with its belief: the modifier “old” is often combined to the word “blood”, as in “the old fierce pull of blood” (Faulkner 335). Remaining through numeros generations, blood symbolizes the way in which the previous works relentlessly nowadays, even in ways that are not instantaneously noticeable. In addition, though, the certainty that Sarty cannot cut and run from his family background, the physical existence and non appearance of blood is more relevant to how the family acknowledge to such connection--with passion, for instance, or not. In consideration of this line following by the story’s first acknowledgement of Abner, they become aware that this pull Sarty is talking about is the blood connection he feels edures between him and his father. At this point, Sarty seems to realize that this genetic bond is meaningful. However, something seems to change when his father tells him, “You’re getting to be a man. You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain’t going to have any blood to stick to you” (Faulkner 338). Abner is both threatening Sarty with abandonment and indicating that Sarty is