The town was proud of Wing's hands like one is of any novelty.
When he spoke with George, he would harness their energy by making fists and beating them against walls or fences. He looked at others' calm hands in amazement. Normally, Wing attempted to keep his hands hidden. Their movement was fidgety and restless, compared by a poet to the wings of a bird, giving him his name. He spoke mainly with his hands which flew in excitement. Only with George would Wing become alive, walking into town or talking loudly and feverishly above the whisper he normally used. George would occasionally walk to his house in the evenings and Wing looked forward to these times. He spoke closely only with George Willard, the boy reporter of the Winesburg Eagle. He would sit on the outskirts of the town in his little house and watch the youth. Often frightened, he would hear ghostly voices personifying his doubts. He remained a mystery to the majority of the town after moving there twenty years before. "Hands" is the story of a fat, old, little man named Wing Biddlebaum who lives mainly isolated from the town life of Winesburg, Ohio.
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