Реферат: Petrified Man By Eudora Welty Essay Research

even understood his point. I think Mrs. Fletcher did change however. At the

beginning of the story it seemed that she was irate when she found out her

pregnancy was the topic of discussion at the beauty parlor. ??Who was it??

demanded Mrs. Fletcher.? By the end of the story, once they had talked about

everything that had happened to Mrs. Pike and her husband, Mrs. Fletcher felt

fine about talking about the pregnancy. ?I guess I better learn how to spank

little old bad boys,? as if once the attention was on someone else, she no

longer cared about people talking about her pregnancy. Now, in fact, she was

talking about it. Do you think the on going theme of the story is? I thought the

theme of the story was jealousy. I started thinking about it as soon as Mrs.

Fletcher started getting defensive once Leota told her about Mrs. Pike. The more

Leota talked about her, the more defensive Mrs. Fletcher got. ?Does she know

everything about you already?? Then all of the sudden, once she found out that

Leota and Mrs. Pike had had a falling out, everything was fine. As mentioned

before, when Mrs. Fletcher found out Mrs. Pike was the one that told Leota Mrs.

Fletcher was pregnant, she was outraged. Mrs. Pike was the one Leota talked to

all the time now. She was the one who heard all the stories about everyone in

town. She was Leota?s new confidant if you will. To prevent from slipping too

far down on Leota?s friend list, Mrs. Fletcher kept asking questions about

Mrs. Pike pretending to be interested. The whole time just waiting for the time

when she would mess up. Once she knew that their friendship was over, everything

was great. She no longer cared about people talking about her pregnancy. As for

Leota, her jealousy seems to be the only reason for her hatred of Mrs. Pike.

Jealous of the fact that it was her magazine that Mrs. Pike had seen the reward

poster in, jealous that she had seen the very same man Mrs. Pike did, and

jealous that Mrs. Pike was getting the $500. She was so jealous, she ended the

friendship. Now everything is back to the way it was before.