Barn Burning | Abner Snopes
Ab Snopes enlisted as a soldier in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, but his choice of sides signified convenience and nothing more, for, as the reader is told, Ab had gone to war as a "private" in the ‘‘fine old European sense’’—for purely mercenary reasons, to get what booty he could. ''It meant nothing and less than nothing to him if it were enemy booty or his own.’’ Snopes took a musket-ball in his heel and limped afterwards because of it, but he does not deserve, as Faulkner makes plain, the usual respect due to wounded veterans (of either side). Snopes...
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