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Questions
 Will George Willard be successful when he gets to the city?
on what can you base your inferences?
How
does time of day influence your interpretation of the ending?
How does this story join with "Death" and "Sophistication" to give a sense of closure to
what you know about George Willard?
Small comments that this story
"has not received, and probably does not call for, extensive critical
analysis" (203). If you knew nothing else about George Willard what would this
story have to offer? |
Critical Sources
- Papinchak, Robert Allen. Sherwood Anderson: A Study of the Short Fiction. New York: Twayne, 1993.
- Small, Judy Jo. A Reader's Guide to the Short Stories of Sherwood Anderson. New York: G. K. Hall, 1994.
- Yingling, Thomas. "Winesburg, Ohio and
the End of Collective Experience." New Essays on Winesburg,
Ohio. Ed. John W. Crowley. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.
99-128.
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