Essay from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, Technical University of Darmstadt (Institut fur Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft), course: Narrative Cycles, language: English, abstract: James Joyce's "Dubliners" and Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" are two of themost famous examples for short story cycles. Both collections were published at thebeginning of the 20th century (Dubliners in 1914 and Winesburg, Ohio in 1919). Onecould guess that both collections deal with the same topics and themes due to the factthat their publication has taken place within five years, and this theory is particularlyright. In addition to that the setting seems to be similar, because both collections of shortstories take place in one town with a set of different characters. During my elaboration Iam going to present the main themes and imageries of the two collections as well ascompare the setting within these short story cycles. These two aspects will be the basisfor my comparison of the two short story collections.