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Eudora Alice Welty is a classic American author who is known simply as one of the greatest short story writers and novelist of the 20th century. Eudora Welty is a novelist and a short story writer who writes based on her Southern heritage. Eudora is a native of Jackson, Mississippi who often uses a Mississippian setting and atmosphere in her work. Her fiction is not only set in the American South, but she also emphasizes this by using intense Southern dialect. In her writing, Welty relates to the diverse Southern traditions and ways of life that she is accustomed too. A typical piece of writing by Eudora would include a significant amount of humor mixed in with cultural pride. Many of her readers value her writing because she presents life in an ordinary and even gossipy way. The fantastic thing about the works of Eudora Welty is that she dares the reader to take a journey deep within them to understand the true meaning of her writing. Readers who choose not to take the journey are often left confused by her complex stories. Throughout her short stories and novels, Eudora Welty follows a basic guideline as to how to write. Her stories typically start out by having a person who has loved immensely, but then is cut off from what he or she loves. This is best summarized by the term love and separateness. She then describes how people try to find their place within Southern society. Welty best portrays Southern society by using Southern dialect and talking in everyday, simple language. Welty then challenges the reader to explore the mysteries of identity and the meaning of the essential self. She often uses a paradoxical way of thinking and writing. For example, she makes one whole out of two seeming opposites between living cautiously and thinking adventurously. By conveying her lyrical in everyday life, she offers haunting glimpses into the interior lives of individuals. She does use comedy to lighten the mood, but she also portrays everyday things in a frightening way. Welty often combines nonsense for family life, food, conversations, and a sharp penetrating eye for the seams of this world to achieve this frightening state of mind. To finish her one of a kind masterpiece, she often explains how life and human relationships should be celebrated to ensure that one lives a life full of memorable journeys. In most of her writing, Eudora Welty focuses on the simpler things in life. She often writes about love by stating that it always comes and that one needs to take advantage of it when it appears. If one chooses to not take advantage of it, then there will be a high probability that it will not appear again. Welty uses comedy to lighten the mood of the reality of her stories. Due to her being a native of the South, she shows respect for the genuine folk culture of the South by using comedy to reveal the basic facts of life. She is widely known for her ability to portray the life and the character of the deep South. Ultimately, Welty’s goal of her work is to show how the most public things in life, love, and death are the most mysterious and private. Eudora Welty’s basis for how she writes exists in her creative imagination which sees, hears, and celebrates the life of mankind, which constantly suffers through hard times, mysteries, and the realities of life. By using this basis, she forms language and fiction that makes her one of America’s great authors.
 * Eudora Alice Welty by Kyle Robert Canfield **

Bloom,Harold."Bloom's Modern Critical Views."__Eudora Welty__.1986."Literary Reference Center." 
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Bloom, Harold.__Eudora Welty__.New York:Chelsea House Publishers,1986

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Chalton,Nicoh."Welty, Eudora."__Literary Lifelines__.Ed. Margaret Doyle. Danbury:Grolier Educational,1998.124

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Johnston, Carol Ann.__Eudora Welty__. New York.Twayne Publishers,1997

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Kieft, Ruth Vande."Eudora Welty."__DISCovering Authors__,2003."Gale Group's Student Resource Center."

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