Petrified Man
One of Eudora Welty's criticisms is that she occasionally possibly misrepresents the culture and influence of the south. Do you think that is the case in The Petrified Man?When I think of the south, I think of southern hospitality. I picture people always talking to each other, whether it's just small talk or gossip, which is the case in The Petrified Man. The dialogue itself appears to be pretty accurate (from what I can imagine anyway, since I've never been down south). The south definitely has a certain way of talking and Eudora Welty does a great job showing us, not just telling us, this dialect. From the very first sentence of the story, you know where you are, and the type of people involved in the story. "Reach in my purse and git me a cigarette without no powder in it if you kin, Mrs. Fletcher, honey ... I don't like no perfumed cigarettes."As for the events themselves, they appear to be reasonably honest. If you allow yourself to just listen to the story as it's being told, instead of trying to analyze it's validity (it is fiction after all) you will believe you're sitting in Leota's beauty parlor with Mrs. Fletcher and Leota talking about anything or anybody. It doe
How do the major characters react to the story that Leota is telling? Do they change or learn anything?I know when I hear a story, I don't look for a moral to incorporate into my life. Fletcher felt fine about talking about the pregnancy. I just listen to the story and allow myself to be entertained. Pike was the one Leota talked to all the time now. The whole time just waiting for the time when she would mess up. Now everything is back to the way it was before. Pike was the one that told Leota Mrs. Even at the very end of the story when Mrs. 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. Jealous of the fact that it was her magazine that Mrs. She was the one who heard all the stories about everyone in town.
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