The story’s second judge presides over the community where the Snopes family has just moved, and oversees the case in which Abner has sued Major de Spain over the twenty bushels of corn that, the Major has calculated, Abner owes him for soiling the rug. The judge is immediately recognizable to Sarty as a judge because of his glasses and air of authority. This justice does find against Abner, although he lessens the punishment, given the Snopes family’s poverty.
The Justice (II) Quotes in Barn Burning
The Barn Burning quotes below are all either spoken by The Justice (II) or refer to The Justice (II). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Barn Burning
Quotes
He saw the man in spectacles sitting at the plank table and he did not need to be told this was a Justice of the Peace; he sent one glare of fierce, exultant partisan defiance at the man in collar and cravat now, whom he had seen but twice before in his life, who wore on his face an expression not of rage but of amazed unbelief which the boy could not have known was at the incredible circumstance of being sued by one of his own tenants.
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Colonel Sartoris “Sarty” Snopes, Abner Snopes, Major de Spain, The Justice (II)
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The Justice (II) Character Timeline in Barn Burning
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Barn Burning
...looking at a sea of faces. Sarty sees a man with glasses and understands it’s another Justice of the Peace, and also sees the Major in collar and cravat. The Major has...
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Sarty goes up to the Justice and cries that his father didn’t burn—but his father interrupts him and orders him back...
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...to the wagon, Sarty remains in the back of the room, where he can hear the Justice ask if Abner thinks twenty bushels of corn is too high for the damage done....
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The Justice says he’s going to find against Abner, but twenty bushels seems high for someone in...
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