Sherwood Anderson used people he knew as a child in his stories, and Willa Cather used ordinary people in her stories too. Sherwood Anderson wrote a story, ‘Tandy”, with ordinary people like a stranger that was a drunk with a lot of problems, a father that questioned religion, and the father’s daughter. The story is about a stranger that came to the city, Winesburg, to solve his problems and quit drinking. The stranger meets the father (Tom), and one day the stranger tells Tom and his daughter an important story and some advice. The stranger told them, “‘Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy” (McMichael 1264). Then, Tom’s daughter tells her father she wants to be called Tandy, and Tom becomes emotional