The Stylistic Analysis of Sherwood Anderson’s Short Story “Hands”
The stylistic analysis of Sherwood Anderson’s short story “Hands”
I would like tell you about the story I have read. It is written by an American novelist and short story writer. It is called “Hands” and this store is referred to his most enduring work the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio. “Hands” is the story of alone man who has almost no connection with the people of Winesburg, although he has lived near the town for twenty years. Many years ago he had quiet unfortunate experience in the communication with this world. The reason of this failing was his hands. The main character has speaking name Wing Biddlebaum (antonomasia), so it underlines the importance of his hands and personifies freedom. What draws the reader’s attention is that fact that hands play almost the main role in the life of the character.
Wing Biddlebaum talked much with his hands (personification). The slender expressive fingers (epithet), forever active (epithet), forever striving to conceal themselves in his pockets or behind his back, came forth and became the piston rods of his machinery of expression.
The story of Wing Biddlebaum is a story of hands. Their restless activity, like unto the beating of the wings of an imprisoned bird, had given him his name. Some obscure poet of the town had thought of it. The hands alarmed their owner. He wanted to keep them hidden away and looked with amazement at the quiet expressive hands of other men who worked beside him in the fields, or passed, driving sleepy teams on country roads.
The author shows us the man closed to the world. The only person whom he can communicate with is George Willard, who is the reporter on the Winesburg Eagle. No doubt, a reporter is a profession devoted to the communication with people. So, George Willard for Wing Biddlebaum is the way to people, to the world. George is about twenty years old, and Wing, although he looks sixty-five, is about forty. As Wing paces on his porch, he
I would like tell you about the story I have read. It is written by an American novelist and short story writer. It is called “Hands” and this store is referred to his most enduring work the short story sequence Winesburg, Ohio. “Hands” is the story of alone man who has almost no connection with the people of Winesburg, although he has lived near the town for twenty years. Many years ago he had quiet unfortunate experience in the communication with this world. The reason of this failing was his hands. The main character has speaking name Wing Biddlebaum (antonomasia), so it underlines the importance of his hands and personifies freedom. What draws the reader’s attention is that fact that hands play almost the main role in the life of the character.
Wing Biddlebaum talked much with his hands (personification). The slender expressive fingers (epithet), forever active (epithet), forever striving to conceal themselves in his pockets or behind his back, came forth and became the piston rods of his machinery of expression.
The story of Wing Biddlebaum is a story of hands. Their restless activity, like unto the beating of the wings of an imprisoned bird, had given him his name. Some obscure poet of the town had thought of it. The hands alarmed their owner. He wanted to keep them hidden away and looked with amazement at the quiet expressive hands of other men who worked beside him in the fields, or passed, driving sleepy teams on country roads.
The author shows us the man closed to the world. The only person whom he can communicate with is George Willard, who is the reporter on the Winesburg Eagle. No doubt, a reporter is a profession devoted to the communication with people. So, George Willard for Wing Biddlebaum is the way to people, to the world. George is about twenty years old, and Wing, although he looks sixty-five, is about forty. As Wing paces on his porch, he