Achievement I will be a servant to words alone。-SA An excellent storyteller, Anderson seems to be preoccupied by a need to describe the plight of the grotesque-the unsuccessful, the deprived and the inarticulate. He sensitively describes poverty and eccentricity. His simple style, in the oral tradition of storytelling, influenced writers like Hemingway and Faulkner who, in 1956, acknowledged Anderson as"the father of my generation of American writers and the successors will carry on, mng which our tradition of American writin◼ Achievement ◼ "I will be a servant to words alone." - SA ◼ An excellent storyteller, Anderson seems to be preoccupied by a need to describe the plight of the "grotesque" - the unsuccessful, the deprived, and the inarticulate. He sensitively describes poverty and eccentricity. His simple style, in the oral tradition of storytelling, influenced writers like Hemingway and Faulkner who, in 1956, acknowledged Anderson as "the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing which our successors will carry on