Death in the Woods Themes
Women and Femininity
Feminists beware: "Death in the Woods" features so much misogyny that it might send your head spinning like the little girl from The Exorcist. Consider yourself warned. In the story, we meet an old...
Poverty
Sherwood Anderson's "Death in the Woods" is an investigation into how poverty can contribute to cycles of violence and abuse. Take Jake Grimes, for example—the guy takes out his financial frustra...
Isolation
Isolation is like constipation: you can try to avoid it, but sometimes your choices make it inevitable. In "Death in the Woods," we're shown how isolation—from society at large and from the peopl...
Memory and the Past
Do you have photographic memory? Our guess is no. Although memory seems like a straight-forward thing, our actual memories usually end up as filtered and edited as your best friend's Instagram. If...
Mortality
Who would've guessed that a story called "Death in the Woods" would be about death, right? Next thing we know, you're going to try to tell us the Star Wars is about battles in space. Insanity! As i...