... for him. Janet Carey Eldred explains this well in the following lines, "Throughout "Barn Burning," Abner reiterates the importance of blood or family ties and of the power of family solidarity in the sharecropper system. Not through words or law, but through fire and complicity does Abner find the means to "beat" a system that leaves him socially and legally powerless." (Eldred ... ...
... for him. Janet Carey Eldred explains this well in the following lines, "Throughout "Barn Burning," Abner reiterates the importance of blood or family ties and of the power of family solidarity in the sharecropper system. Not through words or law, but through fire and complicity does Abner find the means to "beat" a system that leaves him socially and legally powerless." (Eldred ... ...
... neighborhood - the last representation of its rich past and Emily's power after her father passed away (483). Even though her father is a flat character in the story, he perpetuated Emily's solidarity by driving possible suitors away, so when he died she wanted to "cling to that which had robbed her- by not burying him right away (485). With her father's death ... ...
