Wing's Hands

In Sherwood Anderson's "Hands," Wing's hands are portrayed a delicate, and busy suggesting symbolism. Also, in this short story, the audience experiences the theme of desire to escape. When Anderson explains the situation that Wing, the main character, had in the past being a teacher that was wrongly accused to sexual attraction with his students you feel the theme of wanting to escape that time in Wings’ life. With this story the message behind it can be more powerful the more the reader analyzes it. You can see this in the way Anderson uses his words to describe every situation.
Talking about Wings hands, the young character George Willard thinks “There’s something wrong, but I don’t want to know what it is. His hands have something to do

It is obvious after you read the characters past that he is has a desire to escape, the desire to have a better future and to have people not look at him and his hands as the man he is. Wing is a genuine character, smart and thoughtful. In the story you can tell that Wing as a heart he wants the share with the youth and he also have knowledge he wants to share. The contrast of the characters warmth and humanness with the brutality and narrow-mindedness of others from his past. “His need to censor his hands’ expression is only slightly more powerful that his need to fulfill himself by teaching with caresses, and consequently, his hands are “forever active” yet “Forever striving to conceal themselves” (p.28), representing not only his inner struggle but the subsequent suffering his struggle entails.”(Elledge) In Wings past he was wrongfully accuse by the people of his old town, so from them he has a label, of today’s term, child molester. “…movement of Wing's hands with a fear of sexuality. In another town under another name, Wing had been a teacher of young boys, and when he touched their heads with his restless, expressive hands, the gesture was interpreted as an indication of homosexuality.”(Brown) this quote goes to show the misinterpretation the people of Wing’s old town had that was a