a young age the boy is beginning to develop the ability to form morals and values of his own. However, Sarty fears the harshness of his father, so he forces himself to abandon the thought of questioning his fathers judgments as evidenced by his thoughts Forever he thought. Maybe hes done satisfied now, now that he hasstopping himself, not to say it aloud even to himself. (483)As the family arrives at their new home, Sarty takes note of the de Spain mansion. Sarty perhaps feels that his fathers immoral beliefs will become irrelevant now that people of such wealthy status employ them. Sarty describes the mansion and its relation to the father:Hits big as a courthouse he thought quietly, with a surge of peace an joy whose reason he could not have thought into words, being too young for that: they are safe from him. People whose lives are a part of this peace and dignity are beyond his touch, he no more to them than a buzzing wasp: capable of stinging for a little moment but thats all; the spell of those peace and dignity rendering even the barns and stables and cribs which belong to it impervious to the puny flames he might contrivethis, the peace and joy, ebbing for an instant as he looked again at the stiff black back, the stiff implacable lime of the figure which was not dwarfed by the house, for the reason that it had never looked big anywhere and which now, against the serene columned backdrop, had more than ever that impervious quality of something cut ruthlessly from tin, depthless, as thought, sidewise to the sun, it would cast no shadow. (485)After a conflict between Sartys father and the de Spain family over a French rug, Ab opts to burn yet another barn. At this point Sarty realizes the conflict within his heart, and he forces himself to make a decision between his family and his values. His father realizes his intentions and orders his wife to keep a grip on Sarty. Enraged by his father and family, Sarty breaks the gr...
