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This 3 page paper discusses and analyzes Faulkner's Barn Burning and Poe's Purloined letter for characterization. Bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Allen Poe to the human dramatist, William Faulkner; like comparing apples to oranges, in fact. However, when one strips away the trappings of genre, then it can be seen that
while some differences survive, the writers still employ the literary elements which make a story a classic. In Faulkners short story, Barn Burning, the main protagonists name is Sarty. The
story opens as the boy ponders whether or not he will testify against his father, who is a career arsonist(Warren 148). Year after year Sarty has had to watch his
fathers problem with authority exhibit itself in many barn fires. He has been witness to the terrible truth that a boy faces as he grows up. Faulkners characters are
full, rich, rounded, and three dimensional and have very few rivals for their complexities. The language is purposeful but not rushed, and is highly subjective because of its structure. Each
section falls somewhere in the range from confessional to stream-of-consciousness. Faulkner not only manages to do this, but using these sometimes fragmented passages a complete story of Sartys life is
given to the reader, in much the same way as it would have come to one if they were listening to an oral history. Poes stories have a different flair
all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner gives each character, no matter how insignificant their appearance in his
works, a complete background, Poe focuses his attention on two or three main characters with, often, many secondary characters whose only function is to bring in a clue, offer a
red herring, or suggest a possible motive. Poes works seem to be more plot driven than character driven, whereas Faulkners works are definitely character driven. In Poes Purloined Letter,
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