![]() The speaker rattles on through the pages, giving voice to the flow of thoughts passing through his mind as he relates his impulsive cheating on his fiancée, later his wife-contradicting himself at several points, occasionally losing track of the point he's trying to make, and even creating an impression opposite to what he obviously intends to convey in the mind of the listener. ![]() The narrative is almost, but not quite, stream of consciousness. It's a story that heralds the coming literature of the post-Great War generation. Very well crafted, in a way that broke from the great, well-crafted stories of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth literature. ![]() "The Other Woman" is a story that may explain why modernist writers looked up to Sherwood Anderson in the beginning of their writing careers, although most of them, like Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, felt it necessary to surpass him. THE STORY | THE TEXT Facing the other in oneself
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