Question

I need some help. It's hard for me to read the story for some reason (don't ask) but I have to write a paragraph about "Up the Cooly" by Hamlin Garland and "Departure" by Sherwood Anderson and how the two characters can relate. I have the Departure one down but I can't seem to do Up the Coolly. (since it's hard for me to understand a ton of words at once, i need a bit a of help with that.)

Answer 1

In 1887, Hamlin Garland traveled from Boston to South Dakota to visit his mother and father, whom he had not seen in six years. According to his own account, the trip through farming country was a revelation. Although he had been brought up on a farm, he had never realized how wretched farmers’ lives were. The farther west he traveled, the more oppressive it became for him to see the bleakness of the landscape and the poverty of its people. When he reached his parents’ farm and found his mother living in hopeless misery, Garland’s depression turned to bitterness, and in this mood he wrote Main-Travelled Roads, a series of short stories about farm life in the Midwest.