Porter had stated in her "Reflections on Willa Cather" (1952) that all true art is provincial, firmly rooted to its specific time and place. In much the same way as Cather had done in O Pioneers!
(1913) and My Antonia (1918), Porter examines the potential for tragic moral struggle and deep emotions in supposedly "simple" people.
Porter's regional stories, such as "He," "Holiday," and "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," draw a vivid portrait of the hard life on Texas farmland, never presenting.....
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