When you are trapped, there is a feeling of being confined or imprisoned in a person or place. In the story of Mother, Elizabeth Willard, the mother of George Willard, feels trapped, because she feels confined and bound by her past and herself. Mother says, “Between Elizabeth and her one son George there was a deep unexpressed bond of sympathy, based on a girlhood dream that had long ago died,” (Winesburg, Ohio). She's searching for freedom by rebelling against her husband. In the case of George Willard, he was able to escape.
In Departure from Winesburg, Ohio, George Willard is finally getting the chance to escape his hometown. But, even as he is leaving on the train, he thinks about “Turk Smollet wheeling boards through the main street of his town in the morning, a tall woman, beautifully gowned, who had once stayed overnight at his father’s hotel, Butch Wheeler the lamplighter of Winesburg hurrying through the streets on a summer evening and holding a torch in his hand, Helen White standing by a window in the Winesburg post office and putting a stamp on an envelope,” (Winesburg, Ohio). This can show how you always take some of your home-place away with you. You never really leave.
The story Departure from Winesburg, Ohio says that tradition should be broken if you want to escape. In Departure, George Willard finally escapes the town of Winesburg, Ohio and his father says “Don’t let anyone think you’re a greenhorn,” (Winesburg, Ohio) meaning he didn’t want anyone to know George was from a small town. It shows the first bit of the idea that you can never escape your past. Also a quote from Winesburg claims, “Tom had seen a thousand George Willards go out of their towns to the city” showing that many people just like George had tried to escape the small town, and , from the tone, we can infer that not many people have made it. Another source that talks about escaping is “Mother”. We already know she is trapped and that she believes the only way she can escape is to kill her husband, “...for years she had hated her husband, her hatred had always before been a quite impersonal thing. He had been merely a part of something else that she hated. Now, and by the few words at the door, he had become the thing personified... ‘I will stab him... I will kill him... It will be a release for all of us,’ “ (Winesburg, Ohio). They both want to escape but the point is that escape can be hard and only some people are able to do it. Mother is not able to and neither is George because he took some of “small-town” with him.
In Mother, Elizabeth Willard is dissatisfied with her life but is accepting that it will not change. George Willard is dissatisfied with his life in Winesburg and doesn't accept that it won't change, so he takes his opportunity and rebels against his town to leave gaining a new freedom, but still taking his home with him. The train and the opportunity to leave are his heroes.
In Departure from Winesburg, Ohio, George Willard is finally getting the chance to escape his hometown. But, even as he is leaving on the train, he thinks about “Turk Smollet wheeling boards through the main street of his town in the morning, a tall woman, beautifully gowned, who had once stayed overnight at his father’s hotel, Butch Wheeler the lamplighter of Winesburg hurrying through the streets on a summer evening and holding a torch in his hand, Helen White standing by a window in the Winesburg post office and putting a stamp on an envelope,” (Winesburg, Ohio). This can show how you always take some of your home-place away with you. You never really leave.
The story Departure from Winesburg, Ohio says that tradition should be broken if you want to escape. In Departure, George Willard finally escapes the town of Winesburg, Ohio and his father says “Don’t let anyone think you’re a greenhorn,” (Winesburg, Ohio) meaning he didn’t want anyone to know George was from a small town. It shows the first bit of the idea that you can never escape your past. Also a quote from Winesburg claims, “Tom had seen a thousand George Willards go out of their towns to the city” showing that many people just like George had tried to escape the small town, and , from the tone, we can infer that not many people have made it. Another source that talks about escaping is “Mother”. We already know she is trapped and that she believes the only way she can escape is to kill her husband, “...for years she had hated her husband, her hatred had always before been a quite impersonal thing. He had been merely a part of something else that she hated. Now, and by the few words at the door, he had become the thing personified... ‘I will stab him... I will kill him... It will be a release for all of us,’ “ (Winesburg, Ohio). They both want to escape but the point is that escape can be hard and only some people are able to do it. Mother is not able to and neither is George because he took some of “small-town” with him.
In Mother, Elizabeth Willard is dissatisfied with her life but is accepting that it will not change. George Willard is dissatisfied with his life in Winesburg and doesn't accept that it won't change, so he takes his opportunity and rebels against his town to leave gaining a new freedom, but still taking his home with him. The train and the opportunity to leave are his heroes.