Sunday, February 3, 2019
Culture and Influence of the South in Petrified Man by Eudora Welty Ess
Culture and Influence of the South in Petrified humans by Eudora WeltyWhen I think of the south, I think of southern hospitality. I picture people always talk of the town to each other, whether it?s alone small talk or gossip, which is the case in The Petrified Man. The dialogue itself appears to be pretty accurate (from what I can imagine anyway, since I?ve neer been down south). The south definitely has a certain way of talking and Eudora Welty does a great job showing us, not just intercourse us, this dialect. From the very first sentence of the story, you know where you are, and the type of people obscure in the story. ?Reach in my purse and git me a rump without no powder in it if you kin, Mrs. Fletcher, honey ? I don?t like no perfumed cigarettes.?As for the events themselves, they appear to be moderately honest. If you allow yourself to just listen to the story as it?s organism told, instead of trying to analyze it?s validity (it is fiction later on all) you wi ll believe you?re sitting in Leota?s looker parlor with Mrs. Fletcher and Leota talking about anything or anybody. I...
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