SOURCE: "'New Yorker' Fiction," in The Nation, New York, Vol. 154, No. 15, April 11, 1942, pp. 425-26.
Trilling was one of the twentieth century's most significant and influential American literary and social critics, and he is often called the single most important American critic to apply Freudian psychological theories to literature. In the following excerpt, Trilling discusses short stories published by the New Yorker as works of "great moral intensity."
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