Sherwood Anderson Life And Inf
Sherwood Anderson's life experiences
And the way they influenced how he wrote
Sherwood Anderson often wrote of other people's misery in his short stories and used it in ironic ways when writing his endings. After reading several of his these stories and reading several biographies of his life, I have come to the conclusion that Anderson's life experiences greatly influence the method in which he wrote them. Also, when comparing some of his stories to his life, you will see that many of them can be closely compared to difficult times in which he went through while growing up and as a grown man.
Sherwood Anderson was born into a rather impoverished circumstance in a small Ohio village ...
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to work for his family and bring in more income than his mother and two brothers were making. Anderson worked as a laborer in 1896- 1898, then served in the Spanish American War. He attended Wittenburg Academy in Springfield, Ohio, in 1900, then went to Chicago. In Chicago he worked at a produce warehouse, and when he was in his teens he began working as an editor for an advertising agency. In 1904 he began to display unusual talent for success in the mail- order paint business.
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In addition to having financial problems Anderson also had numerous family problems. I believe that this is the reason that Anderson would use love in his stories and have his characters unable to be with that love.
Anderson was first married on May 16, 1904, to Cornelia Lane of Toledo. He fathered two sons, Robert Lane and John Sherwood, and a daughter, Marion with her. On July 27, 1916, Anderson divorced his current wife and married Tennessee Claflin Mitchell on July 31, at Chateaugay, ...
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in love with a student of his, Mary Cochran. He invites her to his house and she immediately takes a liking to him and his family. As she grows closer to Hugh and his family, Hugh realizes more and more that he can never be with her because he has responsibilities. One evening he asks her to his room and tells her that he is going to kiss her but after he does, she is to leave and never come back, because they could never be together.
In the story “The Rabbits Pen” a man named Fordyce is walking in a garden and passes by a wire pen. In the pen are baby rabbits and the father rabbit is killing them he yells for help and a tall woman, Gretchen, comes running out of the house and ...
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