behind trash cans. This scene seems misplaced and unnecessary, but it is used to create an atmosphere of deterioration and decay. This dilapidating atmosphere that the background portrays invades and desecrates the lives of the grotesques (Burbank 73-77). Through the use of short tales combined to create a novel, Anderson is able to communicate many themes. The rough personal history of Anderson relating to humiliation, loneliness, cultural failure and unhappiness help formulate his ideas of people. Anderson was not writing about society in Winesburg, Ohio, but he was writing about people. Anderson conveys the theme of isolation, discovery, inhibition, and cultural failure to manifest the importance of humans, collectively and individually. Works Cited Anderson, David D. "Sherwood Anderson's Moments of Insight." Critical Essays on Sherwood Anderson. Boston: G.K. Hall,1981. 155-170.Anderson, Sherwood. Winesburg, Ohio. New York: Norton, 1996.Burbank, Rex. Sherwood Anderson. New Haven: Twayne, 1964.Walcutt, Charles Child. "Sherwood Anderson: Impressionism and the Buried Life." The Achievement of Sherwood Anderson.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966.158-170.White, Ray Lewis. Winesburg, Ohio: An Exploration. Boston: Twayne, 1990....
