Selected Short Stories Summary
William Faulkner

Selected Short Stories Summary

Abner Snopesappears in Barn Burning

Taciturn, feral, imbued with a fierce but primitive sense of justice. As a Snopes, Abner is identified with one of two broad types of Southerners depicted in Faulkner's work—Sartoris, or the aristocratic families whose wealth was largely wiped out during the Civil War, and Snopes, the poor, uneducated underclass of shiftless, often violent share croppers. Abner walks with a limp from having been shot in the heel...

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