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“Death in the Woods” is a short story by American author Sherwood Anderson that was first published in a book called Tar: A Midwest Childhood in 1926 and then republished in another Sherwood Anderson short story collection called Death in the Woods and Other Stories in 1933
. It tells the story of Mrs. Grimes, a pathetic figure whose suffering is both cyclical and unrelenting, who dies in the woods while walking home one evening after a lifetime of being abused, ignored, and unloved. Her story is told and re-told, and the reader must grapple with the fact that narrators may be unreliable and the stories they tell may be clouded by the point of view and personal perspective of the storyteller.Explore the full story summary, an in-depth analysis of the narrator, and explanations of important quotes from “Death in the Woods.”
