In the story of “Godliness”, by Sherwood Anderson, the character Jesse Bentley goes through a lot of hardships in his life, which affect the person who he becomes. Jesse suffers through loss and the pain of being alone. Anderson says, “Enoch, Edward, Harry, and Will Bentley all enlisted and before the long war ended they were all killed”.() With his brothers gone and his mother who had recently passed away the only person to take over the family farm was Jesse . He was not in the best of shape and everyone in Winesburg laughed at the thought of Jesse Bentley taking over the families six hundred acres of farm by himself, but that didn 't stop him from getting the job done. Hard working and harsh were just some of the terms used to describe working under Jesse’s conditions. Everyone was treated the same in Jesse 's eyes even his own wife.
A woman who is pregnant as any man knows needs to be taken care of during her time of need. But for Jesse things are different, he only lives to work on his farm. His wife Katherine Bentley tried to do as most farmer wives had been doing during her time. Anderson says “For a …show more content…
The ill tempered half insane woman lashed out at her husband and the citizens of Winesburg. Whether it be pulling a knife on her husband and setting the house on fire or riding through town in a raging carriage nearly hitting any terrified citizen in her way. Just like her father Louise wasn 't always this way growing up with her father denying her the love she needed and with her mother gone there was little to no hope for her. These problems became persistent especially for Louise and David Hardy’s relationship. Anderson says, “Louise Bentley took John Hardy to be her lover… That was not what she wanted but it was so the young man had interpreted her approach to him, and so anxious was she to achieve something else that she made no resistance” (Anderson
A woman who is pregnant as any man knows needs to be taken care of during her time of need. But for Jesse things are different, he only lives to work on his farm. His wife Katherine Bentley tried to do as most farmer wives had been doing during her time. Anderson says “For a …show more content…
The ill tempered half insane woman lashed out at her husband and the citizens of Winesburg. Whether it be pulling a knife on her husband and setting the house on fire or riding through town in a raging carriage nearly hitting any terrified citizen in her way. Just like her father Louise wasn 't always this way growing up with her father denying her the love she needed and with her mother gone there was little to no hope for her. These problems became persistent especially for Louise and David Hardy’s relationship. Anderson says, “Louise Bentley took John Hardy to be her lover… That was not what she wanted but it was so the young man had interpreted her approach to him, and so anxious was she to achieve something else that she made no resistance” (Anderson