HANDS

By Sherwood Anderson
Group #2
Jailene Fraticelli Torres
Jose Narvaez Rivera
Dwight Santiago Lugo
Xavier J. Aguilar Garcia

CHARACTERS
Wing Biddlebaum - He inspire young minds, he was a schoolteacher in
Pennsylvania. His real name was Adolph Myers, he change his name to hide his real
identity because he was falsely accused by Henry Bradford.

George Willard - The proprietor of the New Willard House, he was also the
reporter on the Winesburg Eagle.

CHARACTERS
Berry Pickers - They were people that boisterously pass by Biddlebaums
house with wagons full of berries that the collect.

Henry Bradford A man who falsely accused Wing and hit him in front of
the students.

SETTING
The story takes place during the 1890 at the disordely old hotel
in the town of Winesburg, Ohio.

SETTING
One of the sceness occurs in Pennsylvania where the protagonist
worked as a teacher for the country.

PLOT
A fat little old man watches a group of friends passing in a wagon on a
highway beyond an expanse of weeds. One of them jumps and try to pull a
girl after him. Then they scream to at him Oh. you Wing Biddlebaum,

comb your hair, its falling into your eyes.

Wing is a mysterious man, who only have one real friend named George.
When he is with George, his shyness eases.
His hands are always hide, but he never stop moving them. Even George
wanted to ask him about his hands.

PLOT
One afternoon Wing is telling George that he was trying too much to
be like the other people in town.

Then he dreams of a scene in which a man told him you must try to
forget all you have learned you must begin to dream. From this time
on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices. And he runs
back to the house.

PLOT
The truth is that his hands are the reason of his timidity, when he was a child a
boy who every time he dreams or imagine something he make it real or say it
was real. Then, under questioning from parents and students said that he would

run his fingers through their hair or put his arms around them. And then the
tragedy as the narrator says, a boy beat him and kicked him out school. At
night a group of man drove him out of town.
He change his name to Wing and move to Ohio. Since then he always hide his
hands.

THEMES
The main themes of the story Hands are: the fear, the prohibition and the guilt.
Throughout the end of the story we see the main character, Mr. Wing
Biddlebaum, is constantly frightened and embarrassed by the bad experience he
had when he was a teacher in the state of Pennsylvania.
The heel of his hands was the best teaching method for his students, and the
ability he had with his hands made him unique. They were like his best form of

expression. But Mr. Biddlebaum he blamed his hands for what happened in
Pennsylvania.

THEMES
For this reason, Mr. Biddlebaum, always looking for ways to hide
their hands in society and try to express self-conscious living alone.
Overall in this story we can see how these three themes are tied
together. The main character went through a bad experience that
caused a trauma in your life, living with fear, blaming the past and
self-conscious to express.