Dark Laughter Summary
Sherwood Anderson

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Dark Laughter Summary

Winesburg, Ohio (1919), which Anderson subtitled, "A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life," sketches the story of a large cast of characters; Dark Laughter, in contrast, probes the reflections of three people: Bruce Dudley, his boss Fred Grey, and Fred's wife Aline Grey.

Dudley, a dreamer and a journalist with ambitions to write something serious, feels he is going nowhere with his newspaper job in Chicago. His wife is...

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Sherwood Anderson Biographies (6)

Sherwood Anderson

590 words, approx. 2 pages

The works of the American writer Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) are graced by a psychological complexity absent from earlier American fiction. His stories stress character and mood, and his style is la... Read more

Sherwood Anderson

5,201 words, approx. 18 pages

On the last day of February, 1941, at age 64, Sherwood Anderson set off on a new adventure: he and his fourth wife, Eleanor Copenhaver, sailed on the Santa Lucia on a goodwill mission to South America... Read more

Sherwood Anderson

1,230 words, approx. 5 pages

Sherwood Anderson visited Paris twice during his life; once in 1921 and once in 1926-1927. Each trip lasted only a few months and, of the two, the first was by far the more important. Indeed, the seco... Read more

Sherwood Anderson

8,672 words, approx. 29 pages

Although Sherwood Anderson is not one of the major figures in twentieth-century American literature, he is for several reasons a writer of very considerable significance. At his best in short fictio... Read more

Sherwood Anderson

14,764 words, approx. 50 pages

Sherwood Anderson, now regarded as one of the most important American writers in the short-story form, was born to Irwin McLain Anderson and Emma Smith in Camden, Ohio, on 13 September 1876 and raised... Read more

Sherwood Anderson

9,770 words, approx. 33 pages

Biography EssayAlthough Sherwood Anderson is not one of the major figures in twentieth-century American literature, he is for several reasons a writer of very considerable significance. At his best in... Read more

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