At the nearest farm dwelling, the salesman finds a simple, taciturn couple who assist him with his car and give him a meal and a place to stay for the night. One of her earliest stories, “Death of a Traveling Salesman,” tells of a commercial traveler who loses his way in the hill country of Mississippi and accidentally drives his car into a ravine. Perhaps the only constant in Welty’s fiction is her unerring keenness of observation, both of physical landscape and in characterization, and her ability to create convincing psychological portraits of an immensely varied cast of characters. Elements of myth and symbol often appear in her work, but she uses them in shadowy, inexplicit ways. Thematically, she concerns herself both with the importance of family and community relations and, paradoxically, with the strange solitariness of human experience. The majority of her stories are set in her beloved Mississippi Delta country, of which she paints a vivid and detailed picture, but she is equally comfortable evoking such diverse scenes as a northern city or a transatlantic ocean liner. *The door of opportunity / W.Although some dominant themes and characteristics appear regularly in Eudora Welty’s (Ap– July 23, 2001) fiction, her work resists categorization. The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -2 *The Madonna of the future / Henry James. Powers - *The new dress / Virginia Woolf -3 *The stranger / Katherine Mansfield - The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -2 *Odour of chry Read so far: Forster - Uprooted / Frank O'Connor -2 *A little cloud / James Joyce - *The Madonna of the future / Henry James - *The undefeated / Ernest Hemingway - He don't plant cotton / J.F. Read so far: *Youth / Joseph Conrad - *Livvie / Eudora Welty - *Brother death / Sherwood Anderson - Barn burning / William Faulkner -2 *The road from Colonus / E.M. My favorite story, thus far-because I'm planning to read most, if not all of the stories-was written by E.M.Forster titled "The Road from Colunus." His choice of words, his descriptive narration, and the storyline itself were so compelling and beautiful. This idea came from an article about one of Kurt Vonnegut's assignments to students involved in the Iowa Writer's Project. After reading our three selected stories, we were to choose one and explain why we found it to be the "best," using a rubric. The compilation, originally published in the mid-1940s and revised in 1955, features stories by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Welty, Conrad, James, Woolf, Forster, Hemmingway and others. This idea came from an article about one of Kurt Vonnegut's assignments to students involved in This month's book club assignment was to select three stories from this compilation of short stories.
This month's book club assignment was to select three stories from this compilation of short stories. Shall we do the assignment, assessing the three stories that "please" this reader most and the 3 that "pleases" him least? Perhaps. Came across this, actually gifted to me, after someone posted a piece on Slate, noting this was a text assigned by Kurt Vonnegut for papers from his "beloveds" at Iowa Writers' Workshop back in the day.Ĭonrad, Welty, Faulkner, Joyce and so on. Shall we do the assignment, assessing the three stories that "please" this reader most and the Two dozen masters, indeed. Conrad, Welty, Faulkner, Joyce and so on. Came across this, actually gifted to me, after someone posted a piece on Slate, noting this was a text assigned by Kurt Vonnegut for papers from his "beloveds" at Iowa Writers' Workshop back in the day.
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