In William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,” the main character is Colonel Sartoris Snopes, or “Sarty” for short. This young boy is torn between loyalty to his father and morality, and this story deals with that struggle. Sarty is a “round” character, changing through the story as he moves from “sticking to his own blood” to thinking more of himself and his own welfare. At first he is extremely loyal to his father, but as the …showed first 75 words of 305 total…

…showed last 75 words of 305 total…barn, and then leaves his family. This is an entrance into another style of life, another view of life, and a new freedom that all would have been nonexistant if he had remained in his father’s grip. Sarty has changed from a boy too afraid of his father to take action to a young man, aware of the consequences of his actions and willing to face them in lieu of remaining where he was.