Barn Burning by William Faulkner

From one perspective, "Barn Burning" is a sad story because it's very clear example of the classic struggle between the "privileged" and "disadvantaged" classes. Again and again, feelings of despair surface from both the protagonist and antagonist involved in the story. This story has two different players and two different antagonists. The first two are Colonel Sartoris Snopes and his father, Abner Snopes. Sarty is the protagonist of his father's antagonism as Abner, where the protagonist is surrounded imposed antagonized by the social structure and control of him and his family. The economic situation of the main ...