![]() Sherwood Anderson investigates the issues and plights of women in his Winesburg Ohio. The theme of alienation marks the works of many modern novels such as Sherwood Anderson's novel Winesburg, Ohio. ![]() While it leaves its deep effects upon the female and male characters, women suffer more because of their gender. Estrangement is a modern feature which emerges as a result of the innovations in technology and the lack of faith in the late nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. These issues characterize the content of their literary products. Many mainstream writers start to break with the norms of their times and they depict the plights of women as well as their miseries. INTRODUCION Modern Western literature witnesses iconoclastic changes in the content which, in turns, have their profound impacts on the literary canon. Thus, estrangement deepens women's and plights in a non-feminist world. The research moreover, sheds light on alienation a major concept in modernism the era in which the setting of the stories takes place. In addition, it points out to the traditional portrayal of female characters, the role of patriarchy and the different forms of discrimination which social practices against women: a mother, a wife, and a girl in these stories. This study investigates the image of the woman in many short stories such as, "Mother", "Death", "Tandy". ![]() This paper aims at a feminist reading of Sherwood Anderson's novel Winesburg, Ohio, which addresses the themes of alienation and estrangement and pursues their profound effects on women. ![]()
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