Реферат: Eudora Welty Her Life And Her Works

that reaches great stature in it’s theme of love”(Schlueter, 535). Eudora Welty

captures the feelings of being in love and shows them brilliantly on paper. The

reader immediately empathizes with the young girl who cannot stop thinking of

her young love.

“My love had somehow made me doubly austere in my observation of what

went on about me. Through some intensity I had come almost into a dual life, as

observer and dreamer”(Welty, 76). The young girls ability to see reality is

overtaken by her fantasy of her crush. The child blindly stares about her; she

sees the other bathers partially in a dreamlike state. Welty’s ability to

change from fantasy to reality and past to present is called a confluence. She

uses this technique in this story as well as in many others.

In the short story “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies,” Lily Daw is a

mentally unstable girl. Three women of the town decide to enroll her in the

Ellisville Institute for the feeble minded of Mississippi. The characters in

the story speak as though the story were a stage play. Through this style a

lot is learned about the three women and their personalities.

The character Lilt Daw has had a rough childhood. The three women seem

to act as her guardians.. Lily tells them that she is getting married but they

do not believe her. They convince her that it is best if she goes to the

institute. After Lily has boarded the train to go to Ellisville Institute, one

of the women meet the man who is supposed to marry Lily. The woman who is

shocked that this gentleman exists, runs to the train to get Lily. The other

two women emerge from the train to meet the gentleman. In all of the commotion

one cannot be sure whether or not Lily has gotten off of the train. The story

ends in great uncertainty. The reader cannot be sure whether or not Lily

marries. “Miss Welty revels in working in terms of concious ambiguity, she

leaves the last word unsaid, the ultimate action unconsummated”(Kramer, 327).

Many of Welty’s works end in the same way, she leaves the final thought up to

the reader. The stories do not end in fact but allow the reader to use his or