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Sarty's Transformation in William Faulkner's Barn Burning


   In William Faulkner's story, "Barn Burning", we find a young man who struggles with the relationship he has with his father and his own conscience.  We see Sarty, the young man, develop into an adult while dealing with the many crude actions and ways of Abner, his father.  We see Sarty as a puzzled youth that faces the questions of faithfulness to his father or faithfulness to himself and the society he lives in.  His struggle dealing with the reactions that are caused by his father's action result in him thinking more for himself as the story progresses.

    The first instance in which we can see a transition from childhood to adulthood in Sarty's life is in the way he compliments his father.  Sarty admires his father very much and wishes that things could change for the better throughout the story.  At the beginning of the story he speaks of how his fathers "wolf-like independence" causes his family to depend on almost no one (Faulkner 155).  He believes that they live on their own because of his fathers drive f... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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