Two of Miss Welty’s best stories deal with traveling salesmen. In all of them, the characters, twisted for various reasons away from the path of normal experience, make dreadful adjustments to life. Marblehill,” “A Curtain of Green,” “Why I Live at the P. O.,” carry a mood of incipient madness. The tale holds horror and suppressed passion and as Miss Welty tells it, and intends it, the reader’s sympathy goes out not to the victim of the frightful hoax, but to the tortured youth who realizes he can make no retribution. A youth comes to a little town in Mississippi in search of a Negro cripple whom he had unwittingly exploited in a circus. “Keela, the Outcast Indian Maiden” (Miss Welty needs some one to edit her titles) is another tale of harrowing bewilderment. Left alone, Lily might have worked out some destiny of her own pushed around by the well intentioned women of Victory, she is left in a state of dreadful confusion. In “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies,” Miss Welty tells a twisted story of a half-wit girl. Practically all of the tales hold a note of bitterness and frustration. Most of her stories are placed in small communities of her native state, Mississippi, and carry the intimacy and intensity of narrow-range observation.
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But beyond the incident or series of incidents around which Miss Welty builds her tales, lies the pressure of atmosphere which gives significance to her characters and her facts. The excellence of several of Miss Welty’s stories indicates that eventually she may belong with these: the greater number of them, however, are interesting as examples of the work of an artist who is still in process of perfecting a technique which will sustain incident as well as mood.Īs far as formal or conventional plot is concerned, the stories evade retelling. In large measure this is a peculiarly feminine genre represented at its best by writers like Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Bowen, Kay Boyle and Katherine Anne Porter. That Miss Porter should be attracted by the tales published under the title, “A Curtain of Green,” is not strange for they have a great kinship to her own fine work, possessing a quality of mood which surrounds and gives meaning to the incident. In a foreword warm with critical appreciation and generous encouragement, Katherine Anne Porter introduces a collection of short stories by a comparatively new writer, Eudora Welty. Height: 9.21258 Inches, Length: 6.14172 Inches, Weight: 2.25091969502 Pounds, Width: 1.0521653177 - Eudora Welty - The Contemporary Reviews - Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney Where Is The Voice Coming From? - The Demonstrators. No Place For You, My Love - The Burning - The Bride Of The Innisfallen - Ladies In Spring - Circe - Kin - Going To Naples - Uncollected Stories. Shower Of Gold - June Recital - Sir Rabbit - Moon Lake - The Whole World Knows - Music From Spain - The Wanderers - The Bride Of The Innisfallen And Other Stories.
First Love - The Wide Net - A Still Moment - Asphodel - The Winds - The Purple Hat - Livvie - At The Landing - The Golden Apples. Marblehall - Flowers For Marjorie - A Curtain Of Green - A Visit Of Charity - Death Of A Traveling Salesman - Powerhouse - A Worn Path - The Wide Net And Other Stories. The Whistle - The Hitch-hikers - A Memory - Clytie - Old Mr.
Lily Daw And The Three Ladies - A Piece Of News - Petrified Man - The Key - Keela, The Outcast Indian Maiden - Why I Live At The P.o. The Breadth Of Welty's Offering Is Finally Most Visible Not In The Variety Of Types-farce, Satire, Horror, Lyric, Pastoral, Mystery-but In The Clarity And Solidity And Absolute Honesty Of A Lifetime's Vision.
Stories Are As Good In Themselves And As Influential On The Aspirations Of Others As Any Since Hemingway's. This Omnibus Volume By One Of The South's Greatest Writers Includes Stories Published Prior To 1980.
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