![]() The effect of the book is to cumulatively produce an atmosphere of uncomfortable but compelling intimacy. George matures over the course of the collection, and in the final story leaves Winesburg behind. Many of them feel compelled to explain themselves in some way to a young man called George Willard, the closest thing the book has to a hero. For Anderson these "grotesques" are not monsters to be feared, but creatures to be pitied and loved. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each story concentrates on a different "grotesque" who inhabits the town, people whose lives have become distorted through an inability to communicate. Winesburg, Ohio is a story cycle set in a small town in the 1890s. ![]()
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