Mrs Watts and Mrs Carson were both in the post office in Victory when the letter came from the Ellisville Institute for the Feeble Minded of Mississippi. Now that she is becoming physically an adult they want to put her in a home This passage set the tone of the story and also gives a good sense of Welty's prose style in the story: Her mother died a long time ago and three ladies have been taking care of her. "Lily and the Three Ladies" is about Lilly,a learning challenged girl now grown to sexual maturity. The story seems so simple on the surface but it admits of many readings but just for the mere facts of the story as well as the multiple symbolic themes we can find. The woman also clearly has a diminished mental capacity brought on by her old age. (As background information, we do need to know that setting is one in which racism is very much still a daily factor in life and is accepted as the norm.) The hunter tries to help her, offering her a nickel but he treats the woman-old enough to be his great-grandmother with no respect as if she were a simple minded child. As the woman makes her long journey she encounters obstacles (at times it almost felt like something out of The Wizard of Oz) from a barking dogs to a young Caucasian hunter. It is told in a very simple style, almost as if it were a folk story rather than the carefully crafted work of art it is.
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"Worn Path" is about a very old Black woman on her way to a clinic to get medicine for her grandson. I will generalize a little at the end of the post. Each of the four stories I have read so far are really quite unique.
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Several of them are set in Victory, Mississippi, a town she made up. Welty's stories all seem to be set in small Mississippi towns in the 1930s and 1940s. (I included a bit of background information on Welty in those posts, so in this post I will just talk briefly about two more of her stories that I was very happy to find online.) Overall her story was very captivating and really did a good job explaining how life is from a child’s perspective.So far I have read and posted on two of Eudora Welty (1909 to 2001-Mississippi, USA), "Why I Live at the P. When she was talking about the smell of the air as she was running to the store, I could picture the scene and smell the scents of the licorice, pickles and ammonia. The way that Welty explained the naivety of herself at that age was very clear and I admire her use of detail. My entire class from that moment on was never the same and we all matured a lot from that experience. When I realized this was at the end of 8 th grade and one of my classmates committed suicide. She began to see the world for what it really was which aren’t always happy things. Sessions vanished one day and never returned.
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Every child learns this at different times and through different events in their lives. Being that naïve at 14 did not work out to my benefit. That is when I needed to realize that everyone wasn’t who I thought they were. In my opinion I think that most children grow up feeling like there is really nothing else outside of their hometown and for me I didn’t realize that until I started my freshman year of high school. She is very naïve just like any other child at that age and believes that there is no other world outside of her small town.
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She explains her numerous trips to the store for her mother when there was something that her mother needed that wasn’t delivered to their home. In the short story, The Little Store by Eudora Welty there is a general theme of innocence and simplicity when you’re a young child.