Sophistication Summary
Sherwood Anderson

Sophistication Summary

Sherwood Anderson wrote "Sophistication" as part of his novel Winesburg, Ohio, which was first published in 1919. For four years, living alone in an apartment in Chicago, he had worked steadily on the stories comprising the longer work, having been inspired by Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology and Gertrude Stein's Three Lives. "Sophistication," one of the final three chapters of Winesburg, Ohio, though part of a larger work, has often been interpreted by...

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