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Abner Snopes work for, it is depicted that the family “eat the cold food remaining from the mid- afternoon meal”
(Faulkner, 1939, p.6). Once again Abner Snopes lacks the ability to provide steaming hot food for his family so as to keep them warm and satisfied. These two examples reflect Abner Snopes’ failure to provide a comfortable life for his family. An other basic need that Abner Snopes fails to fulfil is to provide a permanent home for his family. Colonel Sartoris Snopes is overwhelmed by the image of the house that enters his eyes when he walks towards Major de Spain’s house. It is clearly portrayed in the following quotation: They walked beside a fence massed with honeysuckle and Cherokee roses and came to a gate swinging open

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