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Originally Posted by DixieGal
I have a strange relationship with Welty. Being from the South, but being educated and liberal, I despise all of those old down home stereotypes, even though I am one. However, as she is Southern and her writings remind us of our grandmothers, her work is assigned reading from high school all the way through college. The thing is this: I Love Her!
A stream of pure truth runs through all of the cornbread and syrup in her stories. For instance, a woman decides that she is fed up with the way things are going at home, so she moves into the post office building and takes control of her own life. That should be required reading in every home for battered women all across the nation. It is empowering.
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I'm most fond of the music in her writing (which always attracts me more than story or plot). There's a rhythm to the language, which I assume is part of the same musical rhythms of the 'southern' accent. I don't know full how to explain it, because I can't give a solid example, its more of an overall impression. I also love cornbred and syrup in my stories (yes I'm an unashamed sentimentalist)
