Sophistication sherwood anderson6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() With her encouragement, he seeks to escape peer pressure from old and young citizens of the town by undertaking the rites of passage that every young person must endure. ![]() Back home during a summer festival, George visits Helen White again. In the story, George hopes to fulfill his dream of becoming a thoughtful writer, not a "mere peddler of words," as one of his teachers puts it. Critics also noted that the character of George was a not-well-disguised portrait of Anderson himself. ![]() Early reviewers said that the story reveals the secrets and hopes of George Willard and Helen White through its use of clear, conversational diction and graphic description of setting. "Sophistication," one of the final three chapters of Winesburg, Ohio, though part of a larger work, has often been interpreted by critics and readers as an independent story. For four years, living alone in an apartment in Chicago, he had worked steadily on the stories comprising the longer work, having been inspired by Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology and Gertrude Stein's Three Lives. Sherwood Anderson wrote "Sophistication" as part of his novel Winesburg, Ohio, which was first published in 1919. ![]()
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