er is obsessed with race and the Negroes are obsessed with loyalty to Tea Cake, Abner in "Barn Burning" is fixated with social status. Actually, the whole reason that Abner burns down people's barns is because he is envious and vengeful of the wealth that the elite have procured. The rug and the "pretty and white" (496) house of the de Spain's are objects that represent the disparity between their social classes and Abner has the need to destroy such symbols of wealth in
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