A visit of charity'' by eudora welty pdf

By NASRULLAH MAMBROLon

Why I Live at the P.O. is probably Eudora Welty’s best-known and most anthologized short story. The story was first published in the Atlantic (1940) and appeared the following year in her first short story collection, A Curtain of Green and Other Stories. This humorous dramatic monologue is filled with the natural rhythm and idiom of southern speech, and the comedy is further enhanced by the characters’ quirky actions as described through the eyes of Sister.

Jealous of her younger sister, Sister is vexed when Stella-Rondo returns to China Grove after separating from the man she had earlier stolen away from Sister herself. To add insult to injury, Stella-Rondo has with her Shirley-T, a two-year-old “adopted child” whom the family has never heard about. Sister, convinced that Stella-Rondo is systematically turning the whole family against her, describes the events of a scorching Fourth of July that lead Eudora welty short stories full text.