galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=LCO&sw=w&u=yorku_main&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CKJGATE039939817&it=r. Originally published in Midwest Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 4, 1970, pp. 443-456.
Bort, in his essay “Winesburg, Ohio: The Escape from Isolation,” briefly examines the characters in many of the short stories included in Winesburg as they fail to both understand each other and to connect with other members of the town. Working chronologically, Bort specifically mentions: “The Book of the Grotesques,” “Hands,” “Paper Pills