Winesburg, Ohio · Character
Enoch Robinson
A childlike painter from a farm near Winesburg who fled to New York and built a private world he could not share.
supporting
Also known as Enoch, young Robinson, young Enoch, old Enoch
First appearance: Loneliness
As a supporting figure in Winesburg, Ohio, Enoch Robinson is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The central figure of the chapter, a childlike artist who returns to Winesburg after a failed life in New York.
Enoch Robinson left Winesburg for art school and fifteen years in a long narrow room facing Washington Square, where talking artists gathered and he sat silent in a corner. He never grew up, and the child in him kept bumping against money, sex, and other people's opinions until he retreated into a room of imaginary companions. His story is the book's most haunting portrait of loneliness, showing how the need to be understood can curdle into a world no one else can enter.
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- Other
Character groups
- Unfulfilled dreams and isolation
- Youth and romantic tension
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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See Enoch Robinson in Loneliness