he reveals the hands that he works so hard to keep hidden. Realization of this fact leads to painful memories and a hasty retreat to his isolated home.Perhaps the most accurate adjective that describes Wing as a whole is compassionate. With a voice infused with care he implores George to “begin to dream…[and to] shut [his] ears to the roaring of the voices.” (Hands 1) Wing is trying to caution George, as well as all young people, that they must not let the will of others influence their individuality. A very gifted teacher, “he was one of those men in whom the force that creates life is diffused, not centralized.” (Hands 2) His purpose in life is to influence the new generations to follow their visions and to live-up to their goals. In preceding decades, Wing, as Adolph Meyers, was an exceptional educator in a school for young men. He thrived on inspiring the budding adolescents to embrace their creativity. This insight was conveyed through the comforting, affectionate movements of his expressive hands. In a way the voice and the hands, the stroking of the shoulders and the touching of the hair were a part of the schoolmaster’seffort to carry a dream into the young minds. By the caress that was in his fingers he expressed himself. (Hands 2)His hands are the paintbrushes on the canvas of youthful aspiration. Wing Biddlebaum “[is] one of those rare, little-understood men who rule by a power so gentle that it passes as a lovable weakness.” (Hands 2) His true nature had an exceptional impact on many schoolboys, and his defeat proved to be a great loss for countless others.Wing Biddlebaum subsists in Winesburg as an object of sheer recluse. One of his Pennsylvanian pupils had “become enamored of the young master. In his bed at night he imagined unspeakable things and in the morning went forth to tell his dreams as facts.” (Hands 2) The ignorant fathers were enra...
