I Want to Know Why

Probably this American short story is not as popular as Dickens' David Copperfield, yet it also enjoys great fame in the present world. It is coincident that Anderson also gives his readers the shadow of the world through the eyes of a child. One of the different things between the two stories is that Anderson uses the first person for his book. The hero of the story, is a particular townsboy in his teenage¡ª15. He …

…from being incompact. In this story and other stories written by Anderson, readers will hardly find plots or conversations. It seems that Anderson doesn't care about the style of his stories. However, this kind of ease or freedom is just his style! This special style helps to keep him on a certain position in the American history of literature and gives some influence to the late comers, such as Hemingway, Faulkner and some other writers