Mrs.Clinch my group won the competition during the literary allusion, so I will only be writing four hundred words.
Some people may think that Winesburg Ohio is a collection of short stories, but I do not agree with that statement. I think that the stories of Winesburg Ohio are connected to one another and make up one big story. The stories of the minister Curtis Hartman's chapter Strength of God, the teacher Kate Swift's chapter, and George Willard's chapter are all connected to one another. The minister Curtis Hartman succumbs to his sinful desires of the school teacher Kate Swift and tells George Willard about Kate's holiness. This occurs after George Willard's talk with Kate and made him really confused. This shows that the stories are connected, because the minister had his own problems in the Strength of God chapter and George Williard had his own issues with Kate in a different chapter, yet both Curtis and George were affected by the same women during the same time period. Although some may think of Winesburg Ohio as a collection of short stories, the stories are infact connected together, as seen during the minster Curtis Hartman's talk with George Willard about the teacher Kate Swift's holiness, because the stories were occuring during the same time. George Willard's chapters and Doctor Reefy's chapters are connected to each other as well. The doctor had his own chapter that affected him and he explained some of the effects of those experiences to a George Willard in a different chapter. The doctor lost his imaginary friends after he told a women he loved to leave in one chapter, but told George Willard about the experience in a different chapter. Doctor Reefy's stories to George Willard  are significant, because they help prove that the stories in Winesburg Ohio are not just short stories, but part of one big whole story. I think the author of Winesburg Ohio intentially made the different chapters focus on the lives of different people from chapter to chapter so that the reader can make up their own thoughts as to whether Winesburg Ohio is one big and connected plot or a series of short stories. Both sides can be argued fairly, but by making it hard to tell if the Winesburg Ohio is one big sotry or not, it makes the reader think.