Barn Burning

I belivee Barn Burning " is everyone's double ,and that is the source of the misery in which he immerses his family and all of those with whom he comes into contact. Snopes feels challenged,it seems , by the pure existence of others and succumbs on each occasion to the demon of incendiary rivalry.At the conclusion of the first courtroom scene, for example, when the justice of the peace , failing to find Snopes guilty of arson against Mr. Harris nevertheless orders him to "leave this. It also poses a problem for me as a reader in several instances more intent upon explaining and justifying Abner's barn-burning than in registering the pain his family suffers in the context of these fires. The often quoted fire-bbuilding passsage provides a good illustration: The night were still cool and they had a fire against it , of a rail lifted from a nearby fence and cut into lengths-a small fire, neat niggard almost, a shrewd fire; such fires weree his father's habit and custom always, even in freezing weather.