What new Criticism has called the moment of revelation can be adapted to Welty's stories, for denouement occurs in the psyche of a character, not in history and incident.
Welty made frequent use of the tension between the demands of rational, social existence and the possibilities of the imagination--the nontallying "validities" of everyday life and the story. She also made increasingly multifarious use of allusion (biblical, literary, mythological, and psychological) to show how art is the vision of nodes or crossings of these lines of meaning. The Golden Apples (1949), for example, is the perfect monument to that end and is her best collection. Her style in general continues to be influential and often praised.
Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi, on 13 April 1909, the first child and only daughter of Christian and Chestina Andrews Welty. The writer was named for her maternal grandmother, Eudora Carden Andrews; the Andrews clan, a large and boisterous bunch, lived in West Virginia. Christian Welty, an Ohioan, had met the only daughter of the Andrews clan there, courted her, and married her. The couple moved to Jackson, the small-town capital of Mississippi, where Mr.
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