"Simple Through Complication": Gertrude Stein Thinking

Gertrude Stein's uneasiness over the thought that her writing might be sentimental and her fear of confusing self-valuation with her value to others as a commodity, bear upon her understanding of the relationship between writer and audience. By analyzing these issues in her work, one may come to some renewed insights into the chief strength of her work: the way she likes things "simple through complication" and the way she convinces the reader to follow her on this route.