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The Book of the Grotesque
Summary: Analysis of a short story on "Book of the Grotesque" by Sherwood Anderson.
"The book of the Grotesque " is basically one big list of the supposed truths of this world. The old man who wrote this book believes that these truths are beautiful in and by itself; that is until people come along and snatches them up as their own truth. The truth then becomes a falsehood, making the person a grotesque. People will encounter many "truths" in their lives. These truths have only the potential to make people become grotesques, and cannot be used to define or identify one as being a grotesque. It is up to those who have to choose to select between living by these truths or just letting it go and getting on with their lives.
Everybody will be on the verge of becoming grotesque sometime in their lives, where a battle takes place between two opposing thoughts on the same subject. In the story of...
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