BARN BURNING

s nail keg at the back of the crowded room,
             knew he smelled cheese, and more: from where he sat he could see the
             ranked shelves close-packed with the solid, squat, dynamic shapes of
             tin cans whose labels his stomach read, not from the lettering which
             meant nothing to his mind but from the scarlet devils and the silver
             curve of fish--†the smell and sense just a little of fear because
             mostly of despair and grief, the old fierce pull of blood. He could not
             see the table where the Justice sat and before which his father and his
             father's enemy (our enemy he thought in that despair; ourn! mine and
             hisn both! He's my father! ) stood, but he could hear themâ€" (Faulkner
             The last line above foreshadows the mental and emotional struggle that
             Sarty was to encounter. This struggle emerged from the fact that while he
             loved his father and even understood the reason behind h
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