Anderson's view of the world's inhabitants

In observing Sherwood Anderson's writings from a while back, I've developed an understanding and recognition of what he really was observing in people. He is a true modernist and looks at people to find if they have found truth and happiness. I believe that we all want happiness in life, but some people are blocked out by some of the choices we make early in our lives. In the story "Adventure", Alice made a decision early in her life that seemed to make her happy at the time, but stubbornness and the thought that without Ned, she couldn't be happy. Realizing that Ned was only a trap to lead her into a life of disappointment and despair, she knew her life didn't hold any truth. I believe truth and the search for love and happiness was the main goal within everyone in the modernism era. I believe a difference in politics prove a change in people's perception but I'll stay on task. "The Book of the Grotesque" showed a man looking at everything maybe with a little bit more wisdom because he has lived in another era where he may have known truth before. He sees these grotesques and reveals their faults and what they do makes them actually unhappy.