Summary 'The Corn Planting' by Sherwood Anderson is about Will Hutchenson who travels to the city to study to become a cartoonist. Will meets Hal Weyman & they become good friends. Hal travels to see Will's parents, & reads them letters that Will has sent while at school.
Hal has to go to tell Will's parents of his death in a car crash. Understandably, the Hutchenson's are distraught by the news. In the story, they plant corn in the middle of the night in their night gear after hearing this news. This task seems to calm the parents however, as the next day they prepare arrangements for Will