Sherwood Anderson Essay

In Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, the chapter “Hands” explains the impact of misunderstanding. Wing Biddlebaum is a quiet man who keeps to himself and single friend is George Willard. He has difficulty controlling his hands and fiddles with them. As a school teacher wing often caresses the shoulders and heads of his students. Until one night the imagination of a kid went wild. “In his bed at night he imagined unspeakable things and in the morning went forth to tell his dreams as facts.” (13) People began to structure the idea that Wing Biddlebaum was a pedophile, and he was chased out of town and retired his job as a school teacher.   Having being ashamed, wing kept his hands to himself. Until one day he touches the back of his friend George Willard and then remembers to himself of the danger this could cause and then he quotes “I must be getting along home now. I can talk no more with you.” (12) Wing Biddlebaum is a misunderstood man on Winesburg.
In Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, the chapter “Adventure” shows the effects of an unlived life. Alice Hidman is a pretty, young girl of Winesburg who’s satisfied with her lover Ned Currie, upon his leaving. Ned Currie must leave for Cleveland to pursue his career as a newspaper writer, unfortunately ends up going west of Chicago. He promises he will come back for her, “As soon as I get a good job I’ll comeback. For the present you’ll have to stay here. It’s the only thing we can do.” (95) She waits for him all of her life and becomes very lonely and feels unloved. In the mean time Alice’s father dies and with the money she is given buys and works in a dry good store in Winesburg. Alice thinking irrationally, though to herself, “she began to save money, thinking that when she saved two or three hundred dollars she would follow her lover to the city.” (97) This in reality had never happened. Alice kept to herself for many years and when other men tried to get her attention she would have nothing to do with...