The Role Of Sartoris Snopes In Faulkner's Barn Burning

In Jackson’s “The Daemon Lover,” the main protagonist feels helpless under the demands of society that she needs to find a husband. At the beginning of the short story, the woman exposes her nervous tendencyies with, “it was two minutes after ten; she was not satisfied with her clothes, her face, her apartment” (Jackson). Jackson depicts her in a anxious manner even before the time her fiance was supposed to come, she shows signs of her insecurity as a women, having a clean house, perfect and appropriate clothes, hair and makeup. It is the unfair ideals of society, that oppress women because of the expectation to uphold them. Ultimately revealing her loss of stability and the uncertainty she feels, explaining no matter what she does it will

His father, an arson, constantly physically and mentally abuses Sartoris. Sartoris takes on a big responsibility for his father’s wrongdoings by taking the blame for his father, in regard to burning down the barns. He is forced to lie during investigations carried out by the Justice. In spite of that, Sartoris is hesitant to do the wrong action, always feeling “grief and despair” (Faulkner, 1). He lives his life walking on eggshells because of fear of not knowing the things his father was doing, and having to constantly pack and move and leave a past life behind. Sartoris's father demands his son to obey his every demand,he even expects Sartorius to lie for him in his trial, and tells him that he has to "to learn to stick to your own blood or [he] ain't going to have any blood to stick to" (Faulkner, 3). He tells Sartoris how staying by your family's side is the most important thing, even if you have to lie, acting as Sartoris’s oppressor. In effect of Sartoris’s fear of doing the wrong thing, he unexpectedly goes against his oppressor, his own father, in pursuit of doing the right thing. From his actions of telling on his father, his father is persecuted for his crimes, "knowing it was too late yet still running even after he heard the shot and, an instant later, two shots, pausing now without knowing he had ceased to run, crying "Pap! Pap!," running again before he

The women's experiences traditional women oppression under men. She is thought of as unimportant, depicted by Gilman by not properly giving her a name. She represents a loss of identity because she is inferior to John, Gilman explains, “I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus—but John says the very worst thing I can do is think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad. So I will let it alone and talk about the house” (Gilman). Gilman notable personifies the interference that John plays on her thoughts. He interrupts her thoughts describing her husband’s power and authority, “but John says”, exemplifying how is opinion is always right and superior to her own. He controls her head by subsiding the unhappy thoughts and projecting her thoughts to her surroundings, leading to the fascination with the wallpaper. Her sadness is not only derived from the sadness of the apparent ‘condition’ but the oppression she experiences in her relationship. His overarching restrictions that are placed on her, drive her farther into insanity, “life is very much more exciting now than it used to be” (Gilman). Gilman captures the irony, almost comical truth of her madness. She has been derived from pleasure and a normal life, that she finds joy in little things such as the