Sherwood Anderson’s “I’m a Fool” is a very truthful story. Andy, the young “fool” in the story, is a good example of an actual 19-year-old boy trying to impress a girl. He ends up making a fool of himself by lying. This lie gets him what he wants at the time, but ends up ruining his future with Lucy. Like a typical human, after he makes his mistake, he finds something and someone …showed first 75 words of 559 total…

…showed last 75 words of 559 total…himself, he blames it on the man in the Windsor tie, and on the whiskey he drank. I believe that he probably would have still done the same thing, even if he hadn’t ran into the man. Andy is in a very difficult stage of his life. He is striving to become a man. Everything in his life is a conflict. This episode was just one of many life lessons he will go through.