SOURCE: “‘Death in the Woods’: Sherwood Anderson's ‘Cold Pastoral’”, in College English Association Critic, Vol. 30, No. 8, May, 1968, pp. 4–5.
In the below essay, Guerin argues that “Death in the Woods” is a story about writing. The key to the story, according to Guerin, is the revelation that the narrator experiences at the sight of the woman's dead body.
