Sophistication | Historical Context
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Anderson’s ‘‘Sophistication’’ reflects almost none of the modern culture into which the United States was moving during the time of the story—the 1890s. During this time, the nation’s cities were rapidly industrializing—railroads and steel mills dominated the landscape of the Eastern United States. In a few years, automobiles would begin to irrevocably fracture community life by allowing people to live and work in vastly wider areas. But in Winesburg, Ohio, modeled on the town of Clyde, Ohio, where Anderson lived as a child, life had...
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