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This is a term paper on adventure. Anderson made his name as a leading naturalistic writer with his masterwork, Winesburg, Ohio.(1919), an image of life in a typical small Midwestern town, as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio encapsulates both the changes that have swept up language from 1919 till the present, and the endurance of certain themes.

Anderson made his name as a leading naturalistic writer with his masterwork, Winesburg, Ohio.(1919), an image of life in a typical small Midwestern town, as seen through the eyes of its inhabitants. Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio encapsulates both the changes that have swept up language from 1919 till the present, and the endurance of certain themes.

This paper analyzes the eighth chapter In the story “Adventure,” from Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919), the lonely spinster Alice Hindman  who since she is sixteen  waiting delusionally for a lover who will never return. Although “giving to another what she still felt could belong only to Ned seemed monstrous,”  she still lives in the bygone era waiting for someone who never intends to come back, as time passes she takes on a job  and does not socialize with any one, keeping to herself and working at the store.  Dreaming of her future and saving money. She would make endless plans thinking about Ned and herself. She stopped meeting other people and going to the woods and even started talking to her. Her life was so uneventful that when she turned 25 a change occurred when her mother remarried and joined the Methodist church. (117) she does walk out with Will Hurley “to avoid being so much alone.” In her “passionate restlessness,” one evening she undresses and runs naked out of the house into the rain. “Not for years had she felt so full of youth and courage.” She is possessed by a “wild, desperate mood” and a “mad desire to run”; “She wanted to leap and run, to cry out.” But, hearing a voice, “Alice dropped to the ground and lay trembling”; she returns to her room to weep “brokenheartedly” and tries to force herself “to face bravely the fact that many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg” (112-20).

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