A middle-aged industrialist embraces a gospel of sexual emancipation in this psychological novel. Many Marriages tells of the awakening of a repressed soul who comes to believe in sex as the medium for self-realization. Like then-current works by Sigmund Freud and D. H. Lawrence, the book excited a scandal upon its 1923 publication. In this novel, Anderson continued his use of new psychological insights to explore his characters. His storytelling wrote of sexual freedom, which at the time was deemed obscene. It affected the popularity of his novel, Winesburg, Ohio. Despite this, many writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald praised Anderson and considered Many Marriages his best novel-
