Setting: A story’s support and meaning By Michael Lin “Authors use setting to create meaning, just as painters use backgrounds and objects to render ideas.” ~Eudora Welty Often overlooked and brushed past, setting is the main supporting column of any great story. Without setting, the characters wouldn’t have a place to be at all, anywhere, Read more…
“A Visit of Charity” Montse read the story once, and then wrote her response, tracking her experience. If you have not read this story, do not read the below. This is only for current or former Welty students. Now, we first have to deal with the illustration. While it does capture Marian’s flight, the hat Read more…
Eudora Welty’s second voice: how she infused her own thoughts into countless stories Eudora Welty mastered the art of writing. She created complex characters who follow her trademark saying, that “…Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single entire human being who will never be confined in any frame”; she Read more…
Intersecting Visual Art and the Art of the Setting Eudora Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001), daughter of Christian Welty and Chestina Welty, was a short story writer and photographer, born in Jackson, Mississippi. As seen from her memoir, One Writer’s Beginnings, she grew up in a supporting and loving family which included Read more…
Eudora Welty’s Revision Process: Exploring the Two Versions of “Flowers for Marjorie” “We grew up to the striking of clocks.” Thus begins Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings, a book that was on the New York Times Bestseller List for 44 weeks in the early 80s. Welty transports us into her earliest memories, retracing her path to becoming Read more…
