The Themes Portrayed In Faulkner's "Barn Burning".

Jamar DeWalt The Themes Portrayed In Faulkner's "Barn Burning". The works of William Faulkner are drenched with the ambiance of the South. Faulkner, a master when it comes to southern dialect, is highly revered as a "Southern writer". His works include, but are not limited to: "All the Dead Pilots", "Barn Burning", "Country Mice", and "Knight's Gambit". A Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning novelist, Faulkner's prose can be difficult to comprehend. Thus vast worlds of …

…cold-hearted father and husband to a lawless and violent man, which, towards the end of the story, leads him to the death of himself. Things today are better than they were back during the Civil War. People are still categorized by how much money they have. But, because of better law enforcement and court systems, people can't get away with the so-called revenge and hatred, as portrayed by the acts of Abner in the story.