A Futile Quest for a Sustainable Relationship in Welty's Short Fiction

Eudora Welty is an author concerned with relationships between human beings. Throughout A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, The Wide Net and Other Stories, and The Golden Apples, Welty's characters search for ways in which to establish and sustain viable bonds. Particularly problematic are the relationships between opposite sexes. I argue that Welty uses communication as a tool for sustaining a relationship in her early work. I further argue that when her stories provide mostly negative outcomes, Welty moves on to a illuminate the possibility and subsequent failure of relationships via innocence in the natural world. Finally, Welty explores, through her characters, the attempt at marginalization and the quest for relationships outside the culture of the South.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2007

Author dc:creator

• Lancaster, Daniel

Contributors dc:contributor

• Foertsch, Jacqueline
• Kesterson, David
• Hawkins, Stephanie

• communication
• culture
• relationships
• marginalization
• Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation.
• Man-woman relationships in literature.

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• Public
• Copyright
• Lancaster, Daniel
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 174273985
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