Barn Burning
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"Barn Burning" is a widely studied short story by William Faulkner that explores themes of class conflict, family loyalty, and moral integrity in the post–Civil War American South.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Barn Burning canonical | 2 |
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | short story ⓘ |
| author | William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictType |
man vs. self
ⓘ
man vs. society ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReputation | one of William Faulkner's most anthologized stories ⓘ |
| explores |
abuse of power by landowners
ⓘ
conflict between loyalty to family and loyalty to law ⓘ cycle of resentment and revenge ⓘ economic inequality in the rural South ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Harper's Magazine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
a boy's moral awakening
ⓘ
a poor white tenant farmer family ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
modernist fiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Barn Burning (1980 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSymbol |
blood as a symbol of family ties
ⓘ
fire as a symbol of power and destruction ⓘ the soiled rug as a symbol of class conflict ⓘ |
| includedIn | many anthologies of American short stories ⓘ |
| influenced | later Southern Gothic writers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryDevice |
foreshadowing
ⓘ
irony ⓘ stream of consciousness elements ⓘ symbolism ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | American modernism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryStatus | classic of American short fiction ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Abner Snopes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Colonel Sartoris Snopes NERFINISHED ⓘ Lennie Snopes NERFINISHED ⓘ Major de Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativePointOfView | third-person limited ⓘ |
| originalPublicationYear | 1939 ⓘ |
| partOfCollection | Collected Stories of William Faulkner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | post–Civil War American South ⓘ |
| settingRegion | Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
American literature courses
ⓘ
high school literature curricula ⓘ university literature curricula ⓘ |
| theme |
class conflict
ⓘ
family loyalty ⓘ individual vs. community ⓘ justice ⓘ moral integrity ⓘ sharecropping and tenant farming ⓘ violence ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.