Why I live at the P.O.
Eudora Welty, in the story of "Why I Live at the P.O.," tells a story of a girl and the troubles she encounters upon her sister's return into her life. The author uses a first-person point of view to evoke a sense of sympathy from the reader. The story is told from the Sister's perspective and portrays Stella as being spoiled and maliciously turning everyone against her. The author starts to introduce the Sister's cumbersome circumstances early on within the story. Stella-Rondo, having recently returned home after separating from her husband, immediately begins to cause havoc in the household. For example, at dinner, Stella-Rondo inquires to Papa-Daddy, "Sister says she fails to understand why you don't cut off your beard?" (Why I live at the P.O. Page 2). Being fully aware that this was a very sensitive subject with him, Stella-Rondo maliciously insinuates that Sister was the curious one. The Sister obviously knows that this was a beard he had grown out his entire life, however, Stella-Rondo deliberately brought it up knowing it would look badly on Sister.Throughout the story, the reader is cognizant of how the story tends to rev
Sister shows daring when she leaves the home she was brought up in and moves to the post office. Although there is some bias as the story is told from a first-person perspective, it is quite evident that Stella-Rondo's actions were malice in nature. The author portrays her own experience of being brought up in a closely-knit family and being sheltered through Sister's life. Driven well beyond the limits of her frustration, the reader finally understands why Sister finds the need to live at the P. where she is employed as the postmistress. Eudora Welty in her biography has said, "I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. ," by Eudora Welty, is a tale of a girls life and the difficulties that she endures in her sisters presence. Eudora Welty shows the southern lifestyle and language through the story as well. She lies to him one day, claming that Sister had ridiculed him for wearing Stella-Rondo's flesh colored kimono. Mama asks Stella-Rondo, on 'Sister's behalf', whether the daughter could even talk or not. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well.
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