“The Others” in Barn Burning

Barn Burning,written by William Faulkner is an examination of a boy ’s struggle with family loyalty and a higher sense of justice.In the story,William Faulkner stressed his fictional family model through the conflicts between the roles of father and the boy.However,there are female roles in the story who serve nothing but the "voiceless","powerless" "the others".By the analysis of these female images,it presents the marginalized situation of the women at that time.