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Windy McPherson's Son. Sherwood Anderson (1876 - 1941) Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. McPherson starts out as an ambitious newsboy in Caxton, Ohio, with drunkard of a father who constantly embarrasses him.
The author is strongly coherent in the fact that a man needs to find success that will satisfy his ego regardless of the effect that it can have on his child. Windy goes about his business but the inferiority that accompanies his life gives his son the illusion that life offers little hope. The plot that encompasses Windy's journey through life ...
At the beginning of the long twilight of a summer evening, Sam McPherson, a tall big-boned boy of thirteen, with brown hair, black eyes, and an amusing little habit of tilting his chin in the air as he walked, came upon the station platform of the little corn-shipping town of Caxton in Iowa.
Book I - Chapter 2. Windy McPherson, the father of the Caxton newsboy, Sam McPherson, had beenwar touched. The civilian clothes that he wore caused an itching of theskin. He could not forget that he had once been a sergeant in a regimentof infantry and had commanded a company through a battle fought in ditchesalong a Virginia country road.
1 de nov. de 2004 · 1916年，安德森发表了带有浓重自传体风格的小说《饶舌的麦克佛逊的儿子》（Windy McPherson's Son），从此一发而不可收拾。 1919年《俄亥俄州的温斯堡》（Winesburg，Ohio）的发表使安德森获得极大的成功，奠定了他在美国文学史上的地位。
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About the Book. Sherwood Anderson's first and most autobiographical novel and the only one set in Illinois, Windy McPherson's Son received uniformly high praise from literary critics when it was first published. It tells the story of an Iowa newsboy who fights his way to fortune in Chicago, then questions the meaning of his success.
