ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AMERICAN LITERATURE

ELIZABETHAN ERA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote “Barn burning”?
A
Rober Lee frost
B
Eugene O’ Neil’s
C
Tennesse Williams
D
William Faulkner’s
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -"Barn Burning” is a short story by the American author William Faulkner which first appeared in Harper’s in June 1939 (pp. 86–96) and has since been widely anthologized.

Detailed explanation-2: -"Barn Burning” is a short story by the American author William Faulkner which first appeared in Harper’s in June 1939 (pp.

Detailed explanation-3: -In “Barn Burning", William Faulkner explores social class conflicts in the post-Civil War south. Set in Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, the story concerns the Snopes family, a clan who would later appear in three Faulkner novels collectively referred to as The Snopes Trilogy.

Detailed explanation-4: -This legacy became a source of inspiration for stories such as “Barn Burning.” The family’s real-life saga included great-grandfather William Cuthbert Faulkner, who injured his brother in a fight in Missouri at age sixteen, suffered a beating from his own father, and ran away from home.

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