Benjamin Demott argues that Ab Snopes is as cruel to people around him because of the way he was raised and like in the title he is a victim of class. The way he was raised dictates the way he is treating his children, wife, stock and most of the people around him. Agreeing with the way Demott views the “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner. Abner Snopes grew up and has now come to thinking the way he does things is the right way to do it whether or not others may see it that way as well. “Ab nevertheless has managed, through the exercise of his own primitive intelligence, to make sense of his world, to arrive at a vision of the relations between labor, money and the beautiful.” (494) DeMott acknowledges the part with the de Spains and the
