Barn Burning

“Barn Burning” by Ernest Hemingway is a story about a man’s wrong doing. Abner Snopes is a man who believes that when someone does something wrong or unlawful to him he must burn something of theirs. In most cases he is burning there barn. The story begins at one of his trials but he is let go because they did not have any proof to prosecute him for the burning of Mr. Harris’ barn. He then takes his family and moves on to the next town in which he wishes to live in. As soon as they arrive he goes to Major de Spain’s house, and on his way to the house he steps on horse manure. When let into the house he smears the horse manure from his shoe all over the white rug in the house. Major de Spain insists that he cleans the rug and when he takes it back looking worse than it did before he is told that he has to pay ten bushels of corn for the rug. He refused to pay and was going to go after his barn because he thought this was ridiculous. His son Sarty interferes and goes and warns them about what his father is going to do, so he is stopped from burning his barn.