Sophistication | Critical Overview
Published as one of the final chapters of Winesburg, Ohio, ‘‘Sophistication’’ received positive criticism when it first appeared in 1919. In the New Republic, Maxwell Anderson remarked, ‘‘As a challenge to the snappy short story form, with its planned proportions of flippant philosophy, epigrammatic conversation and sex danger, nothing better has come out of America than Winesburg, Ohio. . . . It was set down by a patient and loving craftsman; it is in a new mood, and one not easily forgotten.’’ The acerbic critic H. L. Mencken, whom Anderson...
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