The characters that live in the town of Winesburg Ohio somehow personify a condition of psychic deformity which seems to be the consequence of some crucial failure in all of their lives. There are many symptoms of their recoil from pure sexual contact in the truest form to drunkenness. In Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson, there are many stories that are being intertwined with the same theme. All of the characters are grotesques in their own way. Each character exhibits behavior which would make them a grotesque being, some believe in lying while others can not love or communicate with the opposite sex. There is only one character that doesn't display these qualities. His name is George Willard and he is a local reporter for the town's newspaper. Two unfavorable characters from this novel are Wash Williams and Wing Biddlebaum. One of the characters is unable to love anyone and the other clings to falsehood. Wash Williams is one of the best examples of a grotesque being from the novel. Wash has a grotesqueness that is both mental and physical. Wash's main grotesque characteristic is that he is unable to love anymore. When Wash was young, he was very loving and had a beautiful wife. Wash was a fine, happy gentlemen until he found out about his wife's affairs. That is when his grotesque characteristics cam about. " 'When after two years of that life I found she managed to acquire three lovers who came regularly to our house while I was away at work, I didn't want to touch them or her'"(126). Wash starts to develop his grotesque characteristic when he learns of his wife's affair. His life just starts to go downhill from there and his grotesque characteristic becomes blatantly obvious from then on. The most daunting of these is his hatred for women. Anderson writes, "First of all, he hated women"(122). After he found out, he hated all women, not just only r...