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Sherwood Anderson’s “Mother” and the Evaluation of the Genre
Tamar Khetsuriani
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2013.03.001
Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio (1919) has been the focus of numerous studies from a number of standpoints. This paper explores a short story “Mother” (1919) from Winesburg, Ohio and studies it from an evaluation-based perspective embracing the analysis of the artistic language and the style of the author’s narration. The main focus of the study is concentrated on the genre-related issues as well as on the determining the reason why Anderson avoids the development of the given text and transforming it into the regime of a more large-scale prose. As it turns out from the analysis, Anderson elaborates a specific style of narration and creates the form that can be characterized as the mode of “epic sketch”. Anderson favors to use much smaller meter and scope, and that choice serves the writer’s purpose to describe the psychological portrait of one of the characters of the above-mentioned short story.
artistic language, narration, epic sketch, psychological portrait, psychological potential
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