SOURCE: “‘Mingled Sweetness and Corruption’: Katherine Anne Porter's ‘The Fig Tree’ and ‘The Grave,’” in South Atlantic Review, Vol. 53, No. 2, May 5, 1988, pp. 111–25.
In the following essay, Titus discusses the relationship between aspects of Porter's life—particularly the death of her mother—and her short stories “The Grave” and “The Fig Tree.”
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