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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ALL You Have Viewed Too Many Free Essays, Term Papers, and Book Reports. The Book of the Grotesque The Book of the Grotesque From the title of first chapter in Winesburg, Ohio, “The Book of the Grotesque”, it is clear to see Sherwood Anderson’s preoccupation with the “grotesque”. But what does “grotesque” mean in Anderson’s fiction? The definitions of grotesque, as offered in the Collins English Mini Dictionary, are ‘strangely distorted’ and ‘absurd’ (1). However, the “grotesques” in Winesburg, Ohio are not necessarily repulsive despite their absurdity. Malcolm Cowley, in his introduction to Winesburg, Ohio, defined the “grotesques” as ‘solitary persons’ whose lives have been distorted by their inability to express themselves. (2) It is the life experiences that have made the characters in the short stories “grotesques”. Being “grotesque” also means that the ‘figures... are not, nor are they meant to be, “fully-rounded” characters – they are the shards of life, glimpsed for a moment, the debris of suffering and defeat.’ (3) We only see the “grotesques” at the point in their life that they are seeking contact with the world, when they are displaying the characteristics that make them “grotesque”. David D. Anderson argues that the word “grotesque” does not ‘connote revulsion or disgust’. He compares them to the ‘gnarled, twisted apples’ (4) in “Paper Pills”, which are left behind because grotesques, grotesque, life, enoch, because, thoughts, thought, paper, love, express, winesburg, truth, story, shortcomings, shortcoming, ohio, ineffectuality, inability, human, creativity, afraid, within, understand, three, thoughts, states, second, robinson, prevents, point, pills, people, ordinary, necessarily, move, means, mean, make, loss, lives, however, hands, first, enoch’s, displays, desire, couldn’t, confused, communicating Word Count: 799 Acceptance_Essays American_History Anatomy_&_Physiology Animal_Science_&_Zoology Anthropology Architecture Art Astronomy Aviation Biographies Book_Reports Business Computers Creative_Writing Current_Events Economics Education Engineering English Environmental_Science Ethics European_History Film_&_TV Foreign_Languages Geography Government_&_Politics Health_&_Beauty History_Other Human_Sexuality Legal_Issues Marketing Mathematics Medicine Miscellaneous Music Mythology Philosophy Physics Poetry Political_Science Psychology Religion Science Shakespeare Social_Issues Sociology Speech Sports_&_Recreation Supernatural Technology Theater Theses_&_Dissertations

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