《烧马棚》是美国著名南方作家威廉·福克纳的经典短篇小说之一。该小说以美国内战结束后的南方为背景,描写了一个小男孩在面对父亲用暴力解决一切争端的行为时,内心所受的挣扎,以及他在公平正义与家族血统之间做出的抉择。本文以文学伦理学批评为研究视角,通过逐一解构小说中主要人物的“伦理环境”“伦理身份”“伦理选择”等“伦理结”来剖析作品中的伦理特性,以窥视作者对内战后南方社会新秩序的思考。威廉·福克纳,是20世纪美国文坛上举足轻重 “Burning a horse shed” is one of the classic short stories written by the famous American writer William Faulkner. The novel, based on the southern part of the United States after the end of the civil war, depicts the struggle of a young boy in the face of his father’s violent resolution of all disputes and his choice between fairness and justice and family descent . This article, from the perspective of literary ethics criticism, analyzes the ethical characteristics in the works by deconstructing the ethics, ethical status, ethical choice and other ethical knots of the main characters in the novel. To peek into the author’s thinking on the new social order in the South after the Civil War. William Faulkner is the pivotal figure in the 20th century American literary world