This short story is about Alice Hindman, and the effect that love has on her. She starts to date Ned Curry, who she loses her virginity to. But Ned has to leave. He leaves, but Alice remains faithful, even though Ned was gone a long time. through this time, she begins to need, want another person's contact. So she takes an adventure- she runs naked in the rain at night. After this, she feels changed, as in breifly liberated, but she has stopped being social for her fear of not staying faithful to Ned Curry.
One of the main phrases that stands out to me is, "many live and die alone." I, honestly, think she let this get to her head, and she became grotesque as one might say. She blocked off all social contact and became crazy it seemed like. Sherwood Anderson did a good job at explaining his meaning of "grotesque" in "The Book of the Grotesque." I think one of the meanings interpreted, such as virginity, can make people change.. a lot. I think Alice took the meaning of faithful to an extreme when she cut herself off from civilization. This short story seems to have a deep meaning past love hurts... I think Sherwood Anderson wanted a story that connects with readers about moving on and living life.
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Cadet Cobb makes a strong argument here. He gives great quotes from the short story to back his argument as well. I also believe that she took the word "Faithful" a little too far. Yes you want to be faithful while your partner is away for whatever reason but not to a point to where you don’t talk to friends, Family or even occasionally just having chats with other guys. I don’t know what she was thinking but that is not the way to go. Most people need someone to talk to while their partner is gone, because that can cause a great deal of depression no matter who you are. A great example is when soldiers get deployed. If every wife or husband stopped talking to relatives and friends when their partner left then this world would be in some trouble.
ReplyDeletein this blog post, cadet cobb did a magnificent job by using evidence and picking a part the main theme of this story. Cobbs use of quotes gives you a true understanding that he is a expert on the short story by sherwood anderson. I agree with cobbs statement that she should not have wasted her whole life waiting around for a guy named Ned. Thats a pretty stupid name anyways. Faithfulness only goes so far and she let her faith and hope that he would return to the next level inturn hurting her.
ReplyDeleteExcellent post, Cobb. The follow-up comments are great, too.
ReplyDeletei found this story a great example of how over obsession is very detreamental to ones self and how it can turn a persons life upside down. the main character Alice remains faithful to a man that leaves her and never writes or sees her and this in turn causes her to turn crazy and run at night naked and cut herself from all outside contact to stay faithful to Ned who wants nothing to do with alice.
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