Short Essay On Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty
“Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.” -Welty Eudora Welty is one of our country’s great authors. Born in the south and raised to embrace her artistic side, Welty has bestowed many engrossing short stories upon the literary world. Welty’s southern upbringing allowed her to write masterful tales that focus on an individual’s contrasting romantic view of life verses the reality of living that has critics both praising and condemning her work.
Eudora Welty was born in 1909, in Jackson, Mississippi to parents Christian Webb Welty and Chestina Andrews Welty (“The Eudora Welty Foundation”). Welty’s southern upbringing shaped her immensely as an artist. Her first passion, photography, was inherited from her father. Welty captured images of what the “real” south was like. Welty’s creative expression of southern living evolved from photography to the masterful storytelling she is famous for. Welty’s love of literature was first sparked by her mother and further nurtured while she attended college at Mississippi State College for …show more content…
Utilizing her southern storytelling abilities and her first-hand knowledge of life in a small town, Welty depicts stories with a central theme of an individual’s contrasting romantic views of life versus the reality of living. Most of Welty’s literary works are set in a small southern town similar to the that which she grew up in. This includes her short story, “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies.” A young woman, Lily, who suffers mental disabilities is cared for by three women of her town. Their role as care giver is viewed differently by each individual woman when Lily is faced with a life altering decision. Lily wants to believe she has control over her life but her hope of freedom vanishes ironically as her hope chest is carted off on the train she never boarded
“Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.” -Welty Eudora Welty is one of our country’s great authors. Born in the south and raised to embrace her artistic side, Welty has bestowed many engrossing short stories upon the literary world. Welty’s southern upbringing allowed her to write masterful tales that focus on an individual’s contrasting romantic view of life verses the reality of living that has critics both praising and condemning her work.
Eudora Welty was born in 1909, in Jackson, Mississippi to parents Christian Webb Welty and Chestina Andrews Welty (“The Eudora Welty Foundation”). Welty’s southern upbringing shaped her immensely as an artist. Her first passion, photography, was inherited from her father. Welty captured images of what the “real” south was like. Welty’s creative expression of southern living evolved from photography to the masterful storytelling she is famous for. Welty’s love of literature was first sparked by her mother and further nurtured while she attended college at Mississippi State College for …show more content…
Utilizing her southern storytelling abilities and her first-hand knowledge of life in a small town, Welty depicts stories with a central theme of an individual’s contrasting romantic views of life versus the reality of living. Most of Welty’s literary works are set in a small southern town similar to the that which she grew up in. This includes her short story, “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies.” A young woman, Lily, who suffers mental disabilities is cared for by three women of her town. Their role as care giver is viewed differently by each individual woman when Lily is faced with a life altering decision. Lily wants to believe she has control over her life but her hope of freedom vanishes ironically as her hope chest is carted off on the train she never boarded