Brothers
es parte de la colección de historias de Sherwood Anderson The Triumph of the Egg. El libro fue publicado en 1921 después de
la exitosa Winesburgh,
Ohio.
… For a month,
two months, the Chicago newspapers, that are delivered every morning in our
village, have been filled with the story of a murder. A man there has murdered
his wife and there seems no reason for the deed. The tale runs something like
this—
The man, who is
now on trial in the courts and will no doubt be hanged, worked in a bicycle
factory where he was a foreman and lived with his wife and his wife's mother in
an apartment in Thirty-second Street. He loved a girl who worked in the office
of the factory where he was employed. She came from a town in Iowa and when she
first came to the city lived with her aunt who has since died. To the foreman,
a heavy impassive
looking man with grey eyes, she seemed the most beautiful woman in the world.
Her desk was by a window at an angle of the factory, a sort of wing of the
building, and the foreman, down in the shop had a desk by another window. He
sat at his desk making out sheets containing the record of the work done by
each man in his department. When he looked up he could see the girl sitting at
work at her desk. The notion got into his head that she was peculiarly lovely.
He did not think of trying to draw close to her or of winning her love. He
looked at her as one might look at a star or across a country of low hills in
October when the leaves of the trees are all red and yellow gold. "She is
a pure, virginal thing," he thought vaguely. "What can she be
thinking about as she sits there by the window at work."