Faulkner's (William) Short Fiction | Characters
Faulkner's characters become grotesque when they seize upon some way of ordering their experience and impose it on their worlds without regard for the consequences. For example, Abner Snopes in "Barn Burning" (Harper's Magazine, 1939), builds the meaning of his life out of an absolute sense of personal honor. Unable to brook any challenge to that honor, he fires his successive landlords' barns in revenge for slights he often provokes himself. As a result, he keeps his large family perpetually on the move and finally drives away his son, Sarty, who will not live by his father's...
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