SOURCE: Donaldson, Susan V. “Making a Spectacle: Welty, Faulkner, and Southern Gothic.”1 Mississippi Quarterly 50, no. 4 (fall 1997): 567-83.
In the following essay, Donaldson compares the portraits of women created by Faulkner and Welty, noting that while Faulkner's narratives reverberate with the effort to impose cultural ideas of femininity on his Southern characters, Welty's narratives present women that break out of the narrow confines of their worlds, “a carnival of gothic and grotesque heroines” who resist placement in traditional roles and themes.
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