Abner Snopes displays many stereotypically Jewish characteristics, and embodies an ethnic threat to Southern culture. Southern values in the story, such as the de Spain mansion, “can be seen as a counterthrust against attempts by New Dealers to deploy architectural monumentality in their effort to forge an explicitly national identity.” Faulkner disguised anti-Semitic intentions with the question of class antagonisms that do not exhaust its political meaning. In “Barn Burning”, the manner of the Agrarians, commits itself to the values of a South by signs Faulkner gave of modernization. This article by Thomas Peyser gave a lot of information that I was unaware of, such as the Jewish characteristics. This is the first article I read that talked