![]() ![]() Henry exploits a universal romantic wish that people are basically good and unselfish and possesses an inherent dignity. Henry story, and everything fits into the overall pattern. Henry’s stories is that there is some order in the world, some poetic justice that follows a plan. Henry, for “He was a nobody, but he was a nobody who was also a somebody, everybody’s somebody.” One of the underlying assumptions of O. William Saroyan once wrote that Americans loved O. What was the secret of his success? Partially, it was the personality of the man whose voice was heard in the stories, a personality with which readers could identify and who spoke to some universal human need. By 1920, nearly five million copies of his books were sold in the U.S. Henry was the most popular short-story writer in America. In the first decade of the twentieth century, O. ![]()
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