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A review by crescent1202
Death in the Woods and Other Stories by Sherwood Anderson
4.0
Death in the Woods
I read this story for a project in my AP Literature class, and as a person who doesn't like being told what to read I didn't expect to like this short story as much as I did. This story teaches a valuable lesson-that sometimes the good-natured die at the hands of an endless cycle. The good natured being the woman, Mrs. Grimes and the endless cycle being the feeding. Feeding in a literal sense and a figurative sense. She feeds the German farmer and his wife, she feeds her husband and her son, and post-death she feeds her dogs (or rather they take the food that she had just attained). She has been taken advantage of in a vicious cycle despite being a woman who does not question the authority of those around her or attempt to rebel. In a figurative sense the people are "feeding" off her vulnerability. The theme of this story is both disheartening and fascinating. Not only is the theme shown through Mrs. Grimes own difficulties but through the growth of the narrator as he recounts her story.
I read this story for a project in my AP Literature class, and as a person who doesn't like being told what to read I didn't expect to like this short story as much as I did. This story teaches a valuable lesson-that sometimes the good-natured die at the hands of an endless cycle. The good natured being the woman, Mrs. Grimes and the endless cycle being the feeding. Feeding in a literal sense and a figurative sense. She feeds the German farmer and his wife, she feeds her husband and her son, and post-death she feeds her dogs (or rather they take the food that she had just attained). She has been taken advantage of in a vicious cycle despite being a woman who does not question the authority of those around her or attempt to rebel. In a figurative sense the people are "feeding" off her vulnerability. The theme of this story is both disheartening and fascinating. Not only is the theme shown through Mrs. Grimes own difficulties but through the growth of the narrator as he recounts her story.