Landscape And Barn Burning

Analyze of Death by Landscape and Barn Burning As we all have read the story of A Rose for Emily, I decided to choose the story, Barn Burning, written by the same author, William Faulkner for my analysis paper. The story opens with a scene in the court, where vice and guilt filled the air. The other story I am going to compare with Barn Burning is Death by Landscape. These two stories are seemingly unrelated, yet if you take a deeper look at them, there are still quite a few things in common. In the story of Barn Burning, Abnmathy Snopes, the father of Sarty, burnt down the barn of other’s. When Sarty realized his father’s intention to, once more, burn someone else’s barn, driving by guilt, he felt that he should tell someone. In the end, even though what he had done sacrificed his father’s life, I don’t think he has regretted for what he had done which he thought was right. In the story of Death by Landscape, Lois lives a shadowy life because of an event happened at her thirteen years old.
Take for example the story of Barn Burning, didn’t the effect come deep down into Sarty’s heart and was always there to remind him not to be the man of his father’s kind? He left his home after the death of his father and never returned. Although that means leaving the past behind, did Sarty really let go of everything in the past without it affecting the rest of his life? Just like the character, Lois, in the story of Death by Landscape, she didn’t like nature anymore because of Lucy’s disappearance and she had carried guilt for the rest of her life. Although it wasn’t her who had to be blamed for for Lucy’s disappearance, other people and herself put the invisible blame on her. Even passing all those years, Lois hadn’t been able to let go of the feeling of guilt. There’s always something in these two characters’ heart that haunted them and affected