William Faulkner’s short story, “Barn Burning”, is one of the most widely read stories second to “A Rose for Emily.” Faulkner’s stories are noticeably filled with demanding and unlikeable characters, with a voice of anachronistic prose more related with the great epic poems of ancient literature than the work of his modernist contemporaries. Faulkner is most known to reveal the inner turmoil of his many broken characters by experimental use of stream of consciousness, but David Kern argues that, “his use of SOC is a vehicle for something far richer and more complex that characterization.” “Barn Burning” is unique for the way the protagonist faces challenges and how he responds to each challenge. Sarty is faced with duties and obligations for
