Closure in Barn Burning and Eveline's Definition of Home

Barn Burning and Discussion Topic-“Eveline”
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Question 1
Sarty struggles with antithetical loyalty. He is in a moral dilemma on whether to be faithful to his father or the society and himself. His father is portrayed as a degenerate throughout the story, while Sarty's character is embedded in the events and becomes visible at the end. At the end of the story, we get to know the deeper personality of Sarty in contrast to the basic characteristics of his father. We get to know that he is a secretive person; he chose to keep his father's barn-burning behavior secret when called upon to testify. He is also a logical person because he analyzed his father’s arrangement to practice farming on another grange other than the one he before cultivate before. After the arrangement Sarty burnt the current barn. Therefore, he was the most likely individual to have burnt Mr. Harris' barn, although the Judge found him innocent. We also learn that Sarty is a hopeful person although he lives in despair and grief. He hopes that the elegance of the Major de Spain mansion will motivate his father from barn-burning, as Sarty portrays it as the justice in the society. Sarty embraces Justice because he felt the twenty bushels of corn fine imposed on his father for destroying Major de Spain's rug unfair. Still, on Justice, he foregoes the family loyalty to warn Major de Spain that his father has burned de Spain's barn.
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