Barn Burning and Soldier's Home are two short stories that offer and exceptional insight into the powerful world of writing styles. ... Barn Burning, on the other hand, links Hemingway's simplistic style to author's obsessions and even introduces a model for a general "Hemingway character." ... Faulkner's prose is often dense and complex but he manages to provide each character's narratives with a voice that possesses a unique rhythm and vivid psychological portrait of the character's concerns and biases. ... Reading Barn Burning you shall inevitably reach several...

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She's portrayed as Carl Jung's psychological analysis of Self. ... He also has strong emotions, as when he saves Addie's body from the burning building, "...he appears to be enclosed in a thin nimbus of fire." ... These are depicted in the barn he burns and the river episode. ... Justified by Jung, he represents the psychological process of regeneration. ... The fish is a representation of Christ, and psychologically, it is a direct postulate of Self. ...

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