Influenced by Politics from the 1940s, Robert Penn Warren novel gets inspiration from Huey Long’s life a Louisiana Governor, Senator, a politician who is recreated in Warren novel as Willie Talos. Warren also creates Jack Burden to narrate the story of Long, who is being characterised as Willie Talos. The story of Jack Burden in Robert Penn Warren’s book All The King's Men, tells the story of how he gets involved in Willie Talos political life as his employe, and as his loyal friend. Jack Burden, who narrates his life and Willie Talos story, self-declaring that “the story of Willie Talos and the story of Jack Burden are in a sense the same story”(224) really narrating how Warren thought that Huey Long's life was by creating a story to Long's life.
Starting Jack Burden was born in 1897 from an affair that his mother had with Morty Irwin, referred in the story as “The Judge”, to clarify Jack’s mom does not marries Morty Irwin even though she loves him because he is the fiance of Ellis Burden the person who Jack considers his true father. Later on in his childhood Ellis Burden leaves because he realizes that his best friend Morty Irwin has been having affairs with his wife so he leaves Jack’s mom for another woman. Because of this event in his life makes Jack hates …show more content…
Jack’s mother finishes getting married multiple time throughout her lifetime.
Due to the events that he lived in his childhood Jack’s has a really close mindset. As a matter of fact, he is a self proclaimed “Brass-Bound idealist”(30) that is a idea that he learn