Why is Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson a Modernist novel?

, which was published in
1919, stands as a
tremendously innovative and
significant work in modern American literature.created a new novel
form in
which a series of short stories is unfied through interlocking
characters, mainly
through the frequent appearance of a primary character,
George Willard. A young man who has
grown up in Winesburg, George appears in
most of the stories, sometimes as a leading

character...