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Sherwood Anderson was an American novelist and short story writer born in 1876. He left school at age 14 to work and help support his family. His most famous works include "Windy McPherson's Son" and "Winesburg, Ohio", a collection of fictionalized sketches depicting people defeated by dreams and illusions. Anderson's writing focused on revealing the frustration, loneliness, and longing of his characters through a precise yet colloquial style. He drew from his own experiences growing up in Ohio and was influential in introducing psychological concepts including Freudian analysis to American literature.
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- 1. 13 September, 1876 8 March, 1941 Sherwood Anderson
- 2. BiographyBiography was born in a poor family, he was the third of seven children. leave school at the age of 14 to work and help his family. moved in Chicago at 18 served in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, then began a successful business career in advertising. suffered from nervous exhaustion and amnesia he was married 4 times in 1926 he bought a farm and lived there till the end of his life.
- 3. Windy McPherson's SonWindy McPherson's Son (1916), his first novel. He used his father as the prototype for Windy, a drifter and teller of tall tales. Winesburg, OhioWinesburg, Ohio (1919), a fictionalized sketches of "grotesques損, his term for people defeated by false dreams, people whose illusions have left them vulnerable.
- 4. The Novels.The Novels. Poor White (1920) The Triumph of the Egg (1921) Many Marriages (1923)
- 5. Anderson always stresses his characters and their mood. He uses a laconic, precise, unsentimental and colloquial style to reveal the frustration, loneliness, and longing in the lives of his characters. His character are limited by the narrowness of Midwestern small-town life and by their own . He is the first American novelists who introduces new insights from psychology, including Freudian analysis. Explores different questions and problems : racial one, human frustration, loneliness and alienation, sexual freedom. Some of his works are connected with his childhood and life experience.
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