The Parent-Child Dynamic: Ernest Hemingway Vs Winesburg

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Ernest Hemingway’s first collection of stories, In Our Time, published in 1925, was heavily influenced by his then friend Sherwood Anderson’s 1919 collection Winesburg, Ohio. The most notable difference in the times in which the stories are set is Winesburg, Ohio is set before World War I, and In Our Time is set just after. The result of this is a feeling of potential in Anderson’s work, and a feeling of hopelessness in Hemingway’s. Anderson’s characters are amusing in their ridiculous grotesqueness, such as Alice Hindman’s drastic naked run through the streets to cure her loneliness, or Elmer Cowley’s sudden unexplainable violent outbursts to show the world he “ain’t so queer”. Though these stories are tragic, they are not as tragic as Hemingway’s which take the innocence of youth and break it down before the readers eyes, directly through tragedy, in which the final result is the death of that innocence. Both collections feature different stories about different characters, but they also keep coming back to a central character, George Willard in Winesburg, Ohio, and Nick Adams in Our Time.

The parental figures in Winesburg, Ohio are what Anderson refers to as grotesques.
What they ultimately want, Elizabeth to escape and Tom to become more important is why they try to push George to.
The idea of the child fulfilling the dreams of the parents does not appear again in Winesburg, Ohio.
She is essentially failing in her duties as a parent, believing in a very set pattern of scolding.
Ernest Hemingway's family dynamics have a distinctively different aim than Anderson?s.
His attempt to look away is Nick trying to hold on to that safe level of ignorance that all children have their innocence.
The father seems reluctant at first to pull the wool from his son's eyes.
When Krebs and his mother talk about the war, it is clear that the atrocities he has witnessed have come between them.