Hands (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sherwood Anderson
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The early 1900's
- Setting: Rural Ohio
- Principal Characters: Wing Biddlebaum, George Willard
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Memory, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Alienation, Friendship, Midwest, Dreams, Loneliness, Cities or towns
- Locales: Ohio
The Story
Wing Biddlebaum, a fat little old man, lives an isolated life in a small frame house outside Winesburg, a small, provincial Ohio town. Beset by troubling doubts, he does not think of himself as a part of the life of the town where he has lived for twenty years. In fact, only with George Willard, the young son of the proprietor of the New Willard House, does Wing have anything close to a friendship, and only in George's presence does Wing lose some of his timidity. On this single day of the story's action, Wing hopes that George will spend the evening with him. George...
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