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Growing into Maturity Growing into Maturity The main characters in these three stories “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, “A&P” by John Updike, and “Kansas” by Stephen Dobyns are three examples of characters being in conflict with authority and oneself. In “Barn Burning, “Sarty” Snopes is the young son of a barn burner, who expects his.