![]() ![]() So the young man went to the big city and, of course, he soon forgot "Alice in Winesburg" thus Anderson implies that Ned had other Alices in other towns. But Ned wanted to protect her and wouldn't agree to such an arrangement. ![]() She had wanted to go with Ned to Cleveland and help him get a start, even suggesting that they could marry later. When Alice was with Ned Currie the "outer crust of her life, all of her natural diffidence and reserve, was torn away." But Alice suffered as many women have suffered because of the sex role forced on her by society. The time designations are vague Anderson uses such phrases as "in the spring" and "during the fall" to suggest how monotonously the "weeks ran into months and months into years. ![]() These eleven years are described in a deliberately non-dramatic narrative style to suggest the dull life of a small-town spinster. Alice, at twenty-seven, is a quiet, shy clerk in Winney's Dry Goods Store, but Anderson tells us "beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on." The first part of the story is really about the absence of adventure, the eleven years since Alice was sixteen, when she loved and was loved by Ned Currie. The story of Alice Hindman is another study in appearance and reality. ![]()
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