n to leave.Now, we can look at the other side of the pendulum. Sartoris Snope is also being pulled away from his family. We see grief and despair evident in the very instances where he is defending his father and trying to find a place in his family. When he changes his thought of his "father's enemy" to "our enemy", the narrator indicates that he does this with despair. When he is called to testify in the first trial he thinks, "He aims for me to lie. And I will have to do hit." Again, the narrator states that this thought comes with frantic grief and despair. In these two instances, we see the pendulum swinging very quickly between the two extremes. Sarty tries to defend his father but it is with grief and despair. If a person truly believes in what or who they are defending it would not be with grief and despair but with confidence and persistence. Upon seeing the de Spain mansion, Sarty thinks, "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 that's all; the spell of the peace and dignity rendering even the barns and stable and cribs which belong to it impervious to the puny flames he might contrive" After the rug has been ruined and the twenty bushels requested Sarty has this thought, "Maybe this is the end of it. Maybe even that twenty bushels that seems hard to have to pay for just a rug will be a cheap price for him to stop forever and always from being what he used to be; Maybe he even won't collect the twenty bushels. Maybe it will all add up and balance and vanish - corn, rug, fire; the terror and grief, the being pulled two ways like between two teams of horses - gone, done with for ever and ever." It is in these two thoughts that we really see the desire of Sarty. He longs for the peace and dignity that he associates with the de Spain plantation and he longs to be free of t...
