Barn Burning In the story "Barn Burning" by William Faulkner, Sarty Snopes is the son who is in conflict with his father's opinions. Sarty's views on this conflict become evident as the work progresses. The effectiveness of Sarty's point of view is shown during his conflict with his father, and his internal conflict between staying loyal to his family and doing the moral thing. <Tab/> The views of Sarty are clearly …showed first 75 words of 610 total…

…showed last 75 words of 610 total…Snopes was torn between loyalty to his father and allegiance to morality. It can be easily seen that Sarty is morality and Abner is loyalty to his own race. If Sarty were to become loyal, then he would not be true to himself, but if he stayed with the moral way then he would be true to himself. Sarty's point of view has shown that morality will prevail, and the conflict will have been resolved.