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The small town in the wasteland is full of confused and sad weirdos. Doctors are building the pyramid of truth in the clinic, priests are suffering from spiritual and physical torture, frustrated painters are addicted to imaginary illusions, and girls full of adventure are wasting their youth. Struggle or compromise, pain or numbness, in the end, the young man took the first step to emerge from the cocoon and become a butterfly. "Small Town Freaks" is a collection of short stories that can be called a classic in the history of American literature. It created a new "American writing tradition." The author Sherwood Anderson gives deep sympathy to these eccentrics. Their misunderstanding truly reflects the confusion and thinking caused by the confrontation between tradition and modernity in the early industrialization of the United States in the twentieth century.
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