What Is The Difference Between Departure By Sherwood Anderson

An adventure is always something that makes me smile, especially in car rides with my family and we have the chance to explore famous and important monuments. I remember one time, my family and I were in a car ride that took 16 hours to reach our destination, but the best thing about it was that we visited the White House, looked at some D1 colleges, and just had a good time. The two main character experience the same thing, but in different and opposite sceneries, one character is leaving home while the other character is returning home. In the story, "Departure" by Sherwood Anderson, and in this story it talks about a person, named George, and he has mixed feelings about the city he grew up in and how he doesn’t want to leave it. Next, the story, "Up the Coolly" talks about how a Howard is returning home gets excited, but then feels tense. …show more content…
He stood all night thinking about how the town and how he couldn’t wait to go. In the story it states " Since two o'clock he had been awake thinking of the end of the journey he was about to take and wondering what he would find at the end of his journey." This basically shows how he was so excited and so prepared that he stood up until two o'clock to beginning his journey back to his town. Later, he has fixed emotions about how he is leaving the town he grew up in to join a new city and feels very different. In the story, it states " He stayed that way for a long time and he aroused himself and again looked out of the car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint the dreams of his manhood." This shows how heartbroken he was and how he didn’t want to leave the