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Adolph Anderson Hand

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Modernism in general, signified the struggle that many have experienced with the way those new thoughts challenged their previous lives throughout a period of time when tradition didn't appear to be so significant any longer. This literary movement produced writing that reflected the real lives of people as well as experimentation with point of view in writing to create a unique style that signifies the change of traditional culture under the forces of modernity.

The story Hands established during the American Modernist literature that discovers the fact of reality and how the characters can gain the ability to declare it. The story tests readers to question and learn true objects that presented as a reality in the writing. The character Wing Biddlebaum was disguising his real name, “He was not then known as Wing Biddlebaum, but went by the less euphonic name of Adolph Myers. He was much loved by the boys of his school.” (Anderson) The story forms facts of empathy and compassionate for Wing Biddlebaum who suffered unfairness; he leaves the town to later change his identity. He turns out to be lonely in his own home with only one friend. In Hands, Anderson tells more than he shows. He explains how people are blamed on meaningless things in everyday that causes them to be isolated from their jobs, friends, …show more content…

In the story, Harry reviews his life, realizing that he wasted his talent and ability through delay and in an unhappy marriage “ He destroyed his talent himself by not using it.” (Hemingway) All of Harry’s memories dealt with passing things he had experienced in a specific time in the past that he aimed to write about, but he never got the chance to do so because his life was being cut short. The author made Harry an existing character based on what he wished to feel once his life comes to the

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