![]() ![]() Naturalists like Theodore Dreiser and Frank Norris had shown the ugliness of such cities as Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Earlier realists, like Hamlin Garland in Main Traveled Roads (especially the story "Under the Lion's Paw"), had shown the harshness and brutalizing monotony of a small farm. In his Memoirs published in 1942, a year after his death, Anderson remarked that Winesburg "has become a kind of American classic and has been said by many critics to have started a kind of revolution in American short-story writing." Anderson must have written those words with pleasure for he was a man who liked to be revolutionary, and he was quite accurate when he stated that Winesburg deserved such praise.Īnderson's book was the first work of fiction to expose the hypocrisy, frustration, and inhibition behind the typical small town's facade of gentility. ![]()
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