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Plot in Winesburg, Ohio
Plot Examples in Winesburg, Ohio:
Hands
🔒"Although he still hungered for the presence of the boy, who was the medium through which he expressed his love of man, the hunger became again a part of his loneliness and his waiting..." See in text (Hands)
"Their restless activity, like unto the beating of the wings of an imprisoned bird, had given him his name..." See in text (Hands)
Mother
🔒"The son shook his head. "I suppose I can't make you understand, but oh, I wish I could," he said earnestly. "I can't even talk to father about it. I don't try. There isn't any use. I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think." ..." See in text (Mother)
"he had become the thing personified..." See in text (Mother)
Loneliness
🔒"fruition of the year..." See in text (Loneliness)
Queer
🔒"Pride surged up in him. "I showed him," he cried. "I guess I showed him. I ain't so queer. I guess I showed him I ain't so queer."..." See in text (Queer)
Sophistication
🔒"The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy..." See in text (Sophistication)