Note 40 — Chapter VII · Sherwood Anderson or When the Dreamer Awakes

A lesson which Anderson, as some of his critics tell, probably learned from Gertrude Stein, a virtuoso of the suggestive language to an extreme which the disciple has not yet followed, fortunately for us. Miss Stein’s story of an American family is a quarry where many curious gravels can be found, but no statues.