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A 5 page paper which examines how Faulkner’s themes and ideas are developed in each short story. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Tracy Gregory, October 2001 -- properly! It could be
said that William Faulkner could be taken out of the South (as he, himself, attempted to do when he moved his family to England for a time), the South could
never be taken out of William Faulkner. He lived it, breathed it, and suffered for it, as he carried throughout his life the considerable burden of the once proud
Southern aristocracy of his ancestors, coupled with the gentility of a patriarchal society that was never quite the same after the Civil War. The deterioration of the Southern way
of life, the feelings of rage at a lost culture (and innocence), the conflict of past and present, and the predator (master) and prey (slave) mentality which still existed in
the South were common threads woven throughout the tapestry of Faulkners writings. These themes and ideas are uniquely emphasized in three of Faulkners most popular short stories, "Barn Burning,
"The Bear," and "A Rose For Emily." "Barn Burning" was the story of a family of itinerant farm laborers, who were forced to relocate whenever the pyromaniac patriarch,
Abner Snopes, would become angry and set fire to his employers barn. The atrocities he witnessed during the Civil War burned a hole deep into his psyche, and because
of his shell-shock, he could never quite cope with life in times of peace. The tales narrator is ten-year-old, Colonel Sartoris, known as "Sarty," who attempts to put his
fathers conduct in some type of understandable perspective. In this impressionable young mind, why shouldnt his father burn whatever he got his hands on, since he had survived for
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