bARN burning my willaim faulkner
...tion as they worked as indentured servants to the wealthy white class. Faulkner attacks the issue of white tenant farmers vs. white land owners as well as the interaction between black indentured servants and white .To illustrate his story Faulkner attacks this dichotomy the blacks' subservience, and the unwillingness within the community and the de Spains who employ families like the Sartorises. It is, of course, this very social inequity, the class distinction, and the economic inequality against which Sarty's father Ab Snopes is possessed by each time he rebels against his status, by burning down a barn owned my his employers. The first encounter between Abner and his greatest adversary; the black indentured servant occurs upon his arrival at the door way of the de Spain plantation. An old, neatly dressed black servant in his linen jacket bars the door with his body and commands the father, who has deliberately put his foot down in a pile of fresh horse droppings, to "wipe ya foot, white man." Saying "Get out of my way, nigger," the father defiantly enters the house and imprints his manure laden footprints on the rug. Sarty experiences the interior of the house as an impenetrable fortress. Unlike the other families that they have labored for the de Spain home looks unbreakable to Sarty. As Abner exits the home he turns around realizes the physical beauty of the home, “Pretty and white ain’t it? Never the less he digresses back to his rebellious attitude noting that the house was built on the sweat of black slaves and that they want to hire some whites to “mix some white sweat with it.” Abner Snopes understands full well the hardships, and inequality that the Southern social system has ...