SOURCE: "Death and the Mountains in The Optimist's Daughter," in Essays in Literature, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring, 1988, pp. 77-85.
In the following essay, Watkins discusses the importance of mountains in Welty's life and in her novel The Optimist's Daughter.
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