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The aim of this research is to study the American writer Sherwood Anderson( 1876-1941 ) and his contribution in the American fiction in one of its most remarkable phases : that period of change and literary experimentalism that occurred after the First World War. In this period a new passion and consciousness comes into American writing .It is also thought of as a classic era of materialism, and business - ethics which the writers regularly condemned and expatriated themselves from it. The sense of loneliness and isolation is apparently depicted in Anderson's writings as a clear reflection of the general sense of American society at that time with the spread of commercial and industrial tendencies. The research tries to shed light on this theme in Anderson's major selection of short stories Winesburg, Ohio(1919) as well as in other works like The Triumph of the Egg (1921) and his novel Poor White(1920) .

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Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1920), English poet and novelist has been regarded by many as one of the greatest figures in English literature. He is well- known for the readers and students of literature by his masterpieces Far from the Maddingrowd (1874), The Return of the Native(1878) , Jude the Obscure ( 1895) and other novels. The conflict between Man and the inevitable fate is a recurrent and favorite theme in his fiction. This study is an attempt to explore this theme in Hardy’s novel The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) through a profound analysis of the central character in the novel: Michael Henchard and some other characters and circumstances around him. The poor young man Henchard sells , drunkenly, his wife and little daughter in a village fair and although he shows a real repentance and transfers to an honest man and becomes powerful and wealthy, his old sin resurfaces to torture him and cause his downfall in an obvious significance that the guilty Man cannot escape the judgment of fate.

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