Mr. Snopes In William Faulkner's Barn Burning

The short-story “Barn Burning” is written by William Faulkner. William Faulkner’s short story begins with Mr. Snopes being accused for “burning a barn,” or so they say. The author creates a very tense situation between Mr. Snopes and his son, which comes to play during the rest of the story. Having said that everything is thought of wrong or right which will eventually lead to the dispersion of the family. Having the upper hand on choosing whether something is right or wrong is up to you to believe and no one else to choose. The short- story is told in the Great Depression times which bring into place that what the father says, goes. During this time period in the West the man was the main one and everyone had to obey by what they said. But in this case the Sartoris, the son, knew what was wrong and right. And whether to do the right thing of follow the rules laid out by Abner, the father. Also, the setting is broken up into different classes, such a poverty and wealth. Here poverty plays a big factor because the Snopes family is poor and they look for people for help. But if something they don’t like happens then they fix the problem

Snopes, Abner, is being question at the court house for the barn burning that occurred. They go on to question the boy but because his father is being accused, he said nothing. So at the end of the discussions due to inadequate evidence he is let go but told to leave town by the end of the day. On the way out onlookers who believed that Abner set the fire were showing the family out to the wagon when one of them hits Sartoris, Abner’s younger son, and calls him a Barn Burner. After getting on the wagon they headed out of town to a house, after getting there Abner told Sartoris to go walk with him, on their walk Abner hit Sartoris and told him that the reason he was hit was because he was planning on telling the Judge that he set the fire, and also that he was a man and he had to stick with his own