Wedding at the wedding

The most famous American writers of the 20th century, including William Fulkner, Thomas Wolf, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway. Its prose is saturated with piercing psychologism, which is also distinguished by the novel "Wedding at the Wedding".
At first glance, the intrigue between the successful married manufacturer and his secretary leads to the tragedy and becomes for the heroes the reason to plunge into the secret life of his own consciousness, full of both low -hearted impulses and genuine beauty.
Sherwood Anderson not only anticipates the war of the generation of the sixties with Puritan morality, but also creates an amazingly bold and subtle picture of a spiritual fracture, leading a person to the brink of madness.

Anderson"s genius gives rise to his own world with such a force of conviction that he is able to completely displace the former picture of the world from the susceptible reader ... "Wedding at the wedding" - the novel is not immoral, but frankly antisocial. However, if his hero simply rejected Monogamia adopted in society, it would be nothing more than propaganda. In fact, the novel not so much justifies the hero’s behavior as shows in a new and completely unusual light the relationship between a man and a woman. Before us is the reaction of a subtly feeling, in a high degree of cultural person to such a phenomenon as lust - but how unlike it is the consonant experiences of Theodore Dreiser, James Joyce or, say, Herbert Wells ...
The owner of the Washing Machine Factory, selected in the heroes of the wedding at the wedding, is much closer to existence in absolute vacuum than any literary character, including Odyssey, Lucifer, Attila or Tarzan. And this seems to me a brilliant author"s success.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald