His first marriage-the first of four-ended shortly after his collapse. However, he suffered a nervous breakdown in 1912 and walked away from his paint factory, never again to return.
Army during the Spanish-American War, after which he began writing advertising copy in Chicago, which helped him to launch a successful business career as the owner of a paint factory, the Anderson Manufacturing Company. His formal education ended after one year at Wittenberg Academy, but his many jobs as newsboy, farmhand, and laborer gave him a lively awareness of small-town life and served as an inspiration for his fiction. Anderson’s education was sporadic and erratic. His father’s changing financial fortunes caused the family to move several times they finally settled in the village of Clyde, Ohio, which is the model for the village in Winesburg, Ohio. Thus, from an early age Anderson was exposed to the arts. His father was locally renowned as a storyteller, and his brother Karl achieved success as a painter. Sherwood Anderson was born the third of seven children in Camden, Ohio, on September 13, 1876.
From initial praise by reviewers in the early 1920s, through a lapse of attention through the 1930s and on to the present day, both the short story and the novel of which it is a part have become minor American classics that evoke the stifling nature of small-town life in the early twentieth century. With her encouragement, he seeks to escape peer pressure from old and young citizens of the town by undertaking the rites of passage that every young person must endure. Back home during a summer festival, George visits Helen White again. In the story, George hopes to fulfill his dream of becoming a thoughtful writer, not a “mere peddler of words,” as one of his teachers puts it. Critics also noted that the character of George was a not-well-disguised portrait of Anderson himself. Early reviewers said that the story reveals the secrets and hopes of George Willard and Helen White through its use of clear, conversational diction and graphic description of setting. “Sophistication,” one of the final three chapters of Winesburg, Ohio, though part of a larger work, has often been interpreted by critics and readers as an independent story. For four years, living alone in an apartment in Chicago, he had worked steadily on the stories comprising the longer work, having been inspired by Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology and Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives.
Sherwood Anderson wrote “Sophistication” as part of his novel Winesburg, Ohio, which was first published in 1919.
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