A Brief Analysis on Main Characters of Two Short Stories-“Hands”and“Adven-ture”in Winesburg, Ohio from Freud’s Tripartite Personality Structure Theory

摘要

Sherwood Anderson’s masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio is often considered to be the first real modern American novel.“Hands”and“Adventure”are two representative stories of this novel. In this article, the author tries to do a brief analysis on the protagonists of the two stories by using the tripartite personality structure theory of Freud, aiming to get a deeper interpretation and the profound connotation of the stories.