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Barn Burning and Soldier's Home: Critical Analysis of Writing

A language that not only allows the reader to visualize the setting and the situation but also invites the reader to use his/her five senses and vicariously experience the characters" actions. Faulkner's prose is often dense and complex but he manages to provide each character's narratives with a voice that possesses a unique rhythm and vivid psychological portrait of the character's concerns and biases. (Meyer 559). An essay written by Marilyn Claire Ford, which speaks directly to some of the style elements discussed in Meyer's composition, presents Faulkner as a writer who makes extensive use of the stream of conscious technique, a pure steam of words, apparently formless, but calculated to present a more intimate and vital depiction of characters and themes in a novel.(530) Faulkner often tells his stories using multiple narratives, each with their own interests and biases, who allow us to piece together the 'true' circumstances of the story, not as clues in a mystery, but as different melodies in a piece of music that form a crescendo.(Ford 527) The conclusion in Faulkner's works usually presents a key to understanding the broad panorama surrounding the central event in a way that traditional linear narratives simply are unable to accomplish.
             One of the most interesting techniques that Faulkner uses in his works is the "doubling of perspective" (Ford 527); a technique where there is a constant switch between narrators that tell the story which makes the characters and the objects in the work to have many "dimensions" and to be evaluated from several sides. The narrator in Barn Burning is a complex figure that often fuses with the ten-year-old Sarty and the mature Sarty Snopes to texture the story with multiple narrative presences. The narrator - a sophisticated intellectual and a poetic presence absorbs and interprets Sarty's pain for the reader. For example the way that the story begins tells quite a lot about the poetic nature and sophistication of the narrator:.


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