![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eggs, traditionally a symbol of new life, are associated in Christian cultures with Easter and the resurrection of Christ in other cultures they have the same meaning, associated with spring and rebirth. From this point on, the narrator uses eggs and chickens to chronicle the unhappy and downward-spiraling movement of his family’s life in and near Bidwell, Ohio.Īnderson’s narrative strategy in this story is to reverse the traditional, life-affirming symbol of the egg in parallel with his reversal of the traditional American myth that hard work yields success, a rise in fortunes, and happiness. Quite logically, the son suggests that the father probably learned this American trait when he married, late in life, the taciturn schoolteacher who induced her new husband to start a chicken farm. Narrated retrospectively by the nameless son, now an adult, the story of his father contains in its first paragraph the seeds of the unhappy tale that follows: His father, says the narrator, was perfectly happy with his life as a farmhand until he learned ambition. Sherwood Anderson published his third short story collection, The Triumph of the Egg, which contains “The Egg,” in 1921. ![]()
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