Barn Burning: Sarty's Transformation Into Adulthood
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In William Faulkner's story, "Barn Burning", we find a young man who
struggles with the relationship he has with his father. 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 who faces the q ....
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.... 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 "...wolflike independence..."(145) causes his family to depend on almost
no one. He believes that they live on their own because of his fathers drive
for survival. When Sarty mentions the way his father commands his sisters to
clean a rug with force "...though never ra ....
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