Sherwood Anderson研究

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Late in the 19th century, in an age of confusions and convulsions ofthechangefrom physiocracyto capitalism underthem achineindustry, Sherwood Anderson was born in Camden, Preble County, Ohio.
Although he got tolerable success as a businessman by availing himself of the convulsive situation of the times, the Gilded Age of American materialism, he disappeared from his office at the end of November, 1912. Found in Cleveland a few days later and developing temporal symptoms of amnesia, he was taken to a neighboring hospital. After leaving hospital he went to Chicago without going back to his own office and worked for an advertising company: that formed a fitting opportunity for him to become a writer.
He is a writer who wrote many short stories and novels, based upon his personal experience, on those who lived honestly and purely clinging to a truth deduced from their past experience in the Midwest transformed from an agricultural to an industrial state, as the subject matter. All Anderson's works contain his autobiographical elements, or in other words, he wrote about the world of imagination or that of fancy on the basis of his life.
To be more exact, the theme is common to all his works. By psychoanalyzing Sherwood Anderson I explicate what is the very theme and the real cause he could not help writing on the common theme.
Moreover, psychoanalyzing the cause of his neurasthenia will show why he relinquished his office, deserted two sons, one daughter and his wife who was attracted, well educated, refined, and why he had to choose a career in writing.