Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Tue, 2012-05-22 18:30
After being ordered to leave the community in which the story begins, the Snopes family travels all day and then camps "in a grove of oaks and beeches where a spring ran" (7).
Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Tue, 2012-05-22 18:24
"Barn Burning" begins in a general store. In addition to selling staple goods, such stores served as centers of community activity. The Justice of the Peace uses this store as a makeshift court.
Submitted by dotty.dye@asu.edu on Tue, 2012-05-22 18:14
Eula returns from Texas with "as well-growed a three-months-old baby" as the narrator has ever seen (167). It's clear from the story that the child was conceived before Eula married Flem, and that its father is not Flem, but one of the unnamed men who had been courting Eula. When this child next appears in Faulkner's fiction, as an increasingly important character in the Snopes trilogy, it is identified as a daughter named Linda.
Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Tue, 2012-05-22 18:09
In "Barn Burning," after a day of travel the Snopes family camps someplace between Grenier County and the De Spain plantation "in a grove of oaks and beeches where a spring ran" (7). We have to speculate about the location of this Location.
