May 28, 2021 · In an admirably crafted, tightly knit story replete with foreshadowing, Welty has prepared the reader for Livvie’s metaphorical ascension. When the young woman meets Cash …

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty contains forty-one stories—the distinguished Southern writer’s complete short fiction—in which, by focusing brilliantly on the Mississippi milieu she …

May 4, 2014 · Welty tries to answer these two questions in two basic ways: by describing the actual events and details of her life that she transforms into the stuff of story and by her own …

Cash began whistling a little tune. She did not know what it was, but she had heard it before from a distance, and she had a revelation. Cash was a field hand. He was a transformed field hand.

If Welty’s photographs of Mississippians, black and white, figure Perseus and his defiant heroic gesture, or his exuberant spirit, then the comic photographs of young Eudora Welty and her …

A story about a young black woman forced into a marriage with a much older man who is now in his death throes. This situation frees her to pursue the dream of the fast life with the raw …

Cash’s outfit is described in intimate detail, revealing it to be relatively garish and lively. He’s wearing bright socks, a wide, leaf-green coat with a guinea pig in the pocket, tawny pants, a …

Alone Cash McCord faced a power-hungry tycoon and his cohorts, was robbed of his cattle, ambushed and burned out. He challenged treachery with courage and power with his gun. …

Miss Baby Marie and Cash shine a little light on the story. They both kind of persuade Livvie to go out and explore life a little more. Marie does so by showing Livvie what the outer world has to …

In his pagan abandon and sensuality, his open defiance of sobriety and decorum, he is allied with such characters as Don McInnis of “Asphodel” and Cash McCord of “Livvie” (curiously, all three...