Theme of harmonious relations in the short stories of sherwood anderson

Sherwood Anderson dealt about the perplexities, turmoils and confusions in the relationship between men and women, who are stifled in the claustrophobic atmosphere, is discussed. This paper is focused on the tangles and convulsions of the relationships between married men and women and those which depict the loneliness, isolation, frustrations, disappointments and thwarted potentials of adult men and women, married and single alike. Anderson was deeply concerned about human relations, about the relationship between men and women, and more often than not, about the failure of understanding between them, especially between the married. The world of married men and women in Anderson's stories seems in general to be dimly lit world. Enduringly happy and harmonious marital relations are rather rare there. Whatever the causes be, personal, social, psychological, an almost impenetrable wall seems to keep most husbands and wives apart, making any understanding and communication between them almost impossible.