SOURCE: Schmidt, Peter. “Misogyny and the Medusa's Gaze: Welty's Tragic Stories.” In The Heart of the Story: Eudora Welty's Short Fiction, pp. 49–108. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991.
In the following essay, Schmidt argues that Welty's most successful stories amalgamate the forms of tragedy and comedy.
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