... that, too, is a part of the cycle. It's not good, nor is it bad. It just is. In his story "Death in the Woods," Sherwood Anderson demonstrates mankind's ability to take for granted the gifts received through our Mother Earth, aptly symbolized by an old woman with no name. He also reveals to his reader ... source of our nourishment, she continues to provide for those that give so little back. After we are introduced to her husband, in paragraphs nine through fourteen Anderson flashes back to her youth in an abusive foster home, as well as her short courtship and abrupt marriage to an equa...

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• Grade Level: High School