Dec 31, 2009

Barn Burning | Summary

The opening scene of ‘‘Barn Burning’’ finds the story's protagonist, a ten-year-old named Colonel Sartoris or "Sarty," waiting with his father, Abner Snopes, in a Southern small-town general store being used as a courtroom; the time is ten or fifteen years after the Civil War. As we learn from the interior monologue through which Faulkner conveys all of the story's events, Ab Snopes has been called into court on a charge of arson by his landlord-employer. (Ab is a sharecropper, someone who ''rents'' farmland by promising to remit part of his harvest to the property owner)....