1. Sherwood Anderson and
... of the character to help them to better understand the seemingly uncomplicated, but truly complex, individual. Anderson was once described as "a scorner of neatly plotted stories, [and] most at home in works controlled by the rhythms and voice of the teller of tales" (Benet pg 37). "Gee whizz, gosh amighty" (Anderson) is just a taste of the versatile diction Anderson used. "Repetitive verbiage ... moments of spiritual epiphany" (Rideout pg 2). Anderson furthermore "rebelled against what he termed the "poison plot"--that is, fiction written according to standardized formulas, readily mar...
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