Essays on Sherwood Anderson

“Araby” by James Joyce and “Death in the woods” by Sherwood Anderson are short stories that are written by different writers. However, there are some common and different features that are applicable to both works. Both of the works are similar in their genre and focus on the female character, but on the other hand, they are very different from each other in themes. Short stories “Araby” and “Death in the woods” are very similar in the way they are structured. Both authors are using a male narrator for their stories. The stories are told from the first person ...

After reading the story ‘Mother’, from Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson one, cannot agree with Rigsby’s conclusion that Anderson is not able to comprehend the feminine. Even though Anderson “identifies the feminine with a pervasive presence of fragile, hidden, ‘something’ which belongs for both to the grotesques and the lost potential to the secret knowledge that is designed to expose” as Rigsby asserts, however, Anderson seems to be able to present the internal life of a woman as an ‘other’ in a world that is marked by a desire to suppress and dominate the women. Rigsby herself writes that “Through the ...

Dislocation and Dysfunction

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson is full of characters who lead unhappy, unfulfilling lives – who feel alienated and isolated from one another and from the town in which they live. It could be described as a novel or it could be described as a collection of twenty-four stories which are connected by being set in the eponymous town of the title or by the development of George Willard, who features as a protagonist or secondary character in sixteen of the stories, and is mentioned in three others. George Willard is also privileged as a character since his parents won a boarding house and ...