I'm A Fool
"I'm A Fool" by Sherwood Anderson takes the reader into the mind of a lying, ambivalent, uneducated and somewhat foolish youth. Through his eyes we are told a humorous story of a foolish incident in which he compulsively lies to a beautiful girl in attempt to win her companionship. His plan backfires when he realizes that she likes him for who he is, not the imaginary character whom he claimed himself to be. The insightful theme which Anderson reveals in "I'm A Fool", deals with the inevitable consequences associated with dishonesty and deceitfulness, and he is able to effectively reveal this theme with the use of dramatic irony, a first person point of view, and various elements of character. Dramatic irony is used occasionally by Anderson as a means of indirectly transcending his own thoughts. Such occurrences are suttle and difficult to detect because the nature of the story's first person point of view prohibits Anderson from directly expressing his own personal thoughts to the reader. For instance, the narrator believes that stealing, swearing, getting drunk, and bandaging horses is of far greater importance than a high school diploma or university degree. Anderson is implementing dramatic irony because what the narrator
Most of us know that being dishonest towards other people is wrong and always carries a consequence, yet we may deceive ourselves regularly without realizing it. His ambivalent attitude is emphasized further when he expresses thankfulness towards his mother for teaching him "not be noisy and rough like a gang you see around a race track. Tragically, the narrater does not learn from his consequences in "I'm A Fool", and remains static throughout the story. Sentence fragments such as this one, "I. 159) I admire Anderson's ability to abstain from transcending his own thoughts directly into the mind of the narrator and yet effectively reveal a powerful and insightful aspect of human nature using an simple, uneducated and illiterate youth. "I'm A Fool" by Sherwood Anderson is an enjoyable piece of literature with a strong message that will last a lifetime. 92); however, as the story progresses, he presents us with a new perspective towards the educated saying that "There are some. The story is riddled with simple adverbs and injections that are used to describe the narrators emotions such as "Gee whizz!", "peachy", and "gay".
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