Summary Of Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding

The novel Delta Wedding written by Eudora Welty begins in September of 1923 with nine year old Laura, who has just arrived at her mother's family's house in Fairchild Mississippi. Her 17 year old cousin Dabney is soon to be married to Troy Flavin. The overseer of their cotton plantation. A true tight knit Southern family does not easily accept outsiders. The Fairchild family disapproves of Dabney marrying Troy. They do not think he is not the right man to be marrying their beloveded Dabney. Throughout the novel Troy makes many attempts to get the family on his side, but with all of the family home for the wedding the chaos is at an all time high. Though the family seems to be able to put that aside their disputes for Dabneys special day.
The Delta: a place where you are either in or you're out. Welty uses the minor character Troy to portray how tight-knit and unaccepting the Fairchild family is to those who are not their own. Although the family does not seem close with how much they bicker and fight with
The family did not want Dabney to marry someone that was considered beneath her. They were not about to let her go to just anyone. Many times Troy had to try and prove himself to the family for Dabney. And many times the family did not care. No matter what he did it seemed as if the Fairchilds would always despise him. But as they did with Uncle George's wife Robbie they eventually would come around to the thought of letting Dabney get married to Troy. The wedding would go on and Troy and Dabney would get married, the family would finally accept Troy as part of their family. It might have been a very hard battle to be accepted into the Fairchild family, but Troy overcame the fact that they hated him and he married Dabney. He was now part of the family that in the beginning didn't want him but has learned to accept him for the sake of their daughter