Unlike other naturalists, Sherwood Anderson was not writing about society, but about people. He was interested in treating the individual as human being. trying to tear through the superficialities of society and see the truth and beauty beneath the grotesqueness of alienated individuals. He hoped this novel would have “the effect of breaking down the separateness of so much life.” Though his grotesques remain doomed to their separateness, they are rediscovered and understood by George Willard. George serves as a sounding board for ideas and desires they cannot articulate. Grotesques try to impart to him such wisdoms as they never fully apply to their own lives. George absorbs their agony and experience into the matrix of his own being, achieving the balanced fusion of their distorted incompleteness, and forming a harmonious creative whole being. He shows the growth from a passive observer to an active participant. This novel is about his emotional and aesthetic development from innocence to experience, from ignorance to understanding.
목차
abstract I. 서 론 II. 소외의 원인과 양상 III. 조지의 소외극복 과정 IV. 결 론 인 용 문 헌
키워드
George WillardWinesburgOhiogrotesquerepressionisolation
저자
이석영 [ Lee, Seok-young | 진주대학교(Jinju National University) ]