Jan 2, 2010

Barn Burning | Topics for Further Study

Read another Faulkner story, "Turnabout," in which an American aviator in World War I meets a British torpedo-boat pilot and experiences the war from the sailor's perspective. Compare the ‘‘conversion experience’’ of the aviator at the end of the story, when he wishes that the German target he is bombing were in fact the Allied Headquarters, with Sarty Snopes's ‘‘conversion experience’’ in ‘‘Barn Burning.’’

''Barn Burning'' relies on Sarty's point of view, and to a lesser extent on Abner's and the...