Anderson, Sherwood - Clarence B. Lindsay (essay date 1995)
Clarence B. Lindsay (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: Lindsay, Clarence B. “The Unrealized City in Sherwood Anderson's Windy McPherson's Son and Marching Men.” Midwestern Miscellany 23 (1995): 17-27.
[In the following essay, Lindsay argues that Anderson's “urban” fiction fails to realize its intended impact.]
My inquiry into the unrealized city in Sherwood Anderson's fiction stems from two separate sources. (In respect to Anderson's treatment of the city I will be limiting my remarks to Anderson's first two novels, Windy McPherson's Son published in 1916 and Marching Men published in 1917.) Some years ago when reviewing a collection of short fiction, I found myself nettled, unreasonably perhaps, by several dust jacket statements praising the stories' sense of place. Although I was convinced that these particular stories had little sense of anything, let alone place, I found it a difficult issue to engage. While...
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