Symbols in Sherwood Anderson’s The Egg -.docVIP

【标题】Symbols in Sherwood Anderson’s The Egg 【作者】刘 杰 【关键词】美国梦；鸡蛋；象征 【指导老师】张亚军 【专业】英语 【正文】I. IntroductionSherwood Anderson?(1876?–1941) was an American writer, his influence on American fiction was profound, and his literary voice can be heard in Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck, and others. Sherwood Anderson is known for his novels and short stories that portray life in small towns in Midwestern America. He is one of the most original of those American novelists who were profoundly disturbed by the sense of loss in the age of big business, mass production, commercialism, and social conformity. A distinguishing merit of Anderson’s work is his identification with sympathy for the ordinary person?“Many American writers have taken as their theme the loss of love in the modern world, but few, if any at all, have so thoroughly realized it in the accents of love.” 1On September 13, 1876 Sherwood Anderson was born to Irwin M. and Emma Smith Anderson in Camden, Ohio. He was their third child. The family was forced to move shortly after Sherwood was born because his father’s small business had failed. They finally settled permanently in Clyde, Ohio in 1884. The income was rarely adequate without the added help of the childrens income. Due to the difficulties, Anderson’s father began drinking heavily and his mother died in 1895. Sherwood was eager to take on odd jobs and earned the name?“Jobby”. However, his interests caused him to miss school often. He finally left high school before graduating. In 1896, Anderson left Clyde for Chicago where his brother Karl was living. He worked as a manual laborer until enrolling in the army for service in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.After the War, he again followed his brother who had taken a job as an artist for the Crowell Publishing Company in Springfield, Ohio. In September of 1900, Anderson attended the Wittenberg Academy. Earning his food and lodging as a?“chore boy” at the artists’ bo