I believe the story was uplifting, because I can relate from personal experience.first, Sartoris specifically refers to fear progressively as the story unfolds. To Sartoris happiness is the enthralling promises of a different kind of life.Perhaps the happiness he seeks does exist for him in the future, as he leaves his family and old life behind without looking back. However, Sartoris has found a quieter, more subtle form of happiness. Life under his father was lived in a heightened state of extreme fear, grief, and despair. Now, the extreme emotions that loomed over Sartoris’s young life have eased. His life may not have undergone a radical transformation, but “grief and despair [were] now no longer terror and fear but just grief and despair.”
