The Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories is a famous short story written by American novelist Sherwood Anderson in 1921. The Triumph of the Egg and Other Stories is a famous short story written by Sherwood Anderson in 1921.
The story is told from the first-person perspective of a boy, "I", who recalls and relates the events of his life and those of his parents. The storyline begins with my father's experience of failing to make a fortune raising chickens. At this point, the scene of events is the countryside. Country life is divided into two parts: my father's life before marriage and his life after marriage. My father is naturally optimistic and enthusiastic, and as a farm worker, he is quite content with his life as a bachelor. "I" gives an idyllic description of my father's pre-marital life: he had a horse of his own and went to town on Saturday evenings to drink and entertain with other farm workers. After his father married and had children, his educated mother made him start to have the "ambition" to make a name for himself in society, and his father was the means of making his fortune by raising chickens, but his father's efforts and subsequent failures were always linked to eggs. The 'terrible cycle' of hen, egg and chick, and especially the chick's confused, catastrophic, struggling life cycle subject to 'God's mysterious purpose' intersects with the father's disastrous experience and 'I The inner activity of the "I" intertwines and echoes. Another scene of events shifts to town life. The father runs a restaurant business, and his hopes are destroyed by the display of deformed chicken specimens and egg tricks. The transition from the countryside to the town reinforces the father's quest for success and his inability to escape failure.
The storyline revolves around the events surrounding the egg. The story begins before "I" was born, when my father lived a life that had nothing to do with eggs and no desire to make a name for himself. I have no personal experience of my father's past, so the source of this story may be my parents, and the happy colours of my life may be imagined in the stories I have heard, or my father's emotions about the past. In this account, some of the emotional connections are expressed through virtual speech. This story is contrasted with the subsequent sections. "My childhood and the rural life of my parents are characterised by my father's dream of making a fortune in his chicken farming business, which ends in his failure and the loss of my happy childhood due to my life on a chicken farm. The main plot of the story details the father's departure from the countryside into the city with his 'treasure' of deformed chicken specimens, which ultimately fails again. In the book the triumph of the egg, the egg represents fear.
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