ng "cut out of tin" (Faulkner 149). He believes that Abner is cold, tough, and unwilling to bend for anything. He knows that Abner is set in his ways and doesn't plan to change for anything or anyone. Sarty is afraid of his father and knows what Abner is capable of. For this reason, Sarty feels the need to be loyal to Abner, his father. At the same time, he realizes that Abner is not accomplishing anything by his actions. Their family is suffering because of Abner. Sarty is slowly growing up throughout the story. As soon as Sarty warns Major de Spain, a landowner who they worked for, of Abner's intention to burn his barn, Sarty mentally made the decision to leave childhood and become a man. At that point he took his future into his own hands and no longer allowed anyone, including Ab, to decide how he would live his life. According to Oliver Billingslea, "William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' is a story about the relationship between a father and his sons, not only in the hereditary sense of 'blo
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