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A Review of Eudora Welty's The Wide Net and Other Stories |
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Eudora Welty's The Wide Net and Other Stories exhibits itself, the stories contained within it exhibit themselves, as exceptional people do, creating in those present senses of awe, reverence, drama, and satisfaction. It is almost as if Welty rendered herself unconcerned about her place in the world of letters by the certainty of her knowledge of the fact of her ability, allowing her to create stories of such richness and verbal depth that they simultaneously produce a recognizable exhilaration in the reader by their simple-seeming ease. What more could one want from imagery that both mimics the possibilities of impressionism and resonates with the intimacy of the oral tradition? Ms. Welty gives us both, each story unfolding as if unreeled before our eyes, while the sound that each word makes propels the others on to the next. Listen! she says: I've told you a story, but by that moment, the story is over, leaving her readers with nothing other than the space her words have made inside their mouths. |
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