Eudora Welty By April Lynn

Questions??? When and where was she born? What college did she attend? When did she graduate college? Why did she move to New York? When and why did she move back to Jackson? When was her first story published?

Life Eudora Alice Welty was born April 13, 1909 in Jackson Mississippi where she spent most of her life. She attended Mississippi State College for Women. Then transferred to the University of Wisconsin, from which she graduated in She later moved to New York hoping to pursue a career in advertising and enrolled a Columbia University School of Business. But because of the worsening economy and the depression, she couldn’t find a steady job so she returned to Jackson in Some time later she died July 23, 2001 from complications from pneumonia.

Work She accepted a job as a publicist for a government agency and spent several years traveling through Mississippi taking photos and interviewing people. Her experiences and observations inspired her to write and in 1936 her first short story, “Death of a Traveling Salesman,” was published. She’s best known for “Delta Wedding”

Few Stories Short stories: “Death of a Traveling Salesman” “A Worn Path” Novels: “The Optimist’s Daughter” “A Curtain of Green”

A Worn Path “…She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops, and an equally long apron of bleached sugar sacks, with a full pocket all neat and tidy, but every time she took a step she might have fallen over her shoelaces, which dragged from her unlaced shoes. She looked straight ahead. Her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead, but a golden color ran underneath, and the two knobs of her cheeks were illumined by yellow burning under the dark. Under the red rag, atop her head, her hair came down on her neck in the frailest of ringlets, still black, and with an odor like copper…”

I chose this because… It shows Symbolism. The most obvious symbol in the story is Phoenix Jackson's comparison to the mythological bird, the phoenix. Dressed in vivid colors, Phoenix's resilience is highlighted by her comparison with a bird that rises from the ashes every 500 years.

Quotes “A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. “ “Never think you’ve seen the last of anything.” “Beware of men with manners.” “A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.”

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