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The "Truths" of Wolf Larsen, Lily Bart, and Reverend Hartman
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Jennie Farshchian October 13, 2004 First Formal Essay Topic # 4: The "Truths" of Wolf Larsen, Lily Bart, and Reverend Hartman In "The Book of the Grotesques," Sherwood Anderson suggests that when a person "takes a certain truth to himself, calls it his truth, and tries to live his life by it, he becomes a grotesque and the truth he embraces a falsehood" (Anderson 2). This "truth," once it is takes a material form, suppresses the individual from expressing his wish to love and confines him to a prison of the soul. Three characters that embody this notion of the "grotesque" disfigured by his or her guiding truth are: Wolf Larsen from The Sea-Wolf, Lily Bart from The House of Mirth, and Reverend Curtis Hartman from Winesburg, Ohio. Though Wolf Larsen is unable to unbind himself from the "truths" that have dictated his whole life, Lily Bart and Reverend Hartman are able to release...
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