Essays on Winesburg, Ohio

Life during the turn of the century in Midwestern America proved to be especially difficult. In small towns the general thought was people live a simple existence from day to day without hope for aspiring to anything greater. This is where one of America’s great…

Grotesquery in Winesburg, Ohio What leads people away from a healthy maintenance of truth in their lives, to submersion in their own inflation of these truths? In Sherwood Anderson’s collection of short stories, Winesburg, Ohio, one of these tales, “The Book of the Grotesque”, answers…

Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio is a book that creates a community through the portrayal of many individual characters that reside in the town of Winesburg; the citizens of the community are connected through a commonality in the environment. The citizens chronicled in Winesburg, Ohio happen…