In her writing, it seems that Welty has unconsciously employed what I call for the lack of a better term, "the formula of recognition". In the final section she describes how she succeeds in expressing herself through art, namely, fiction. She also discovers her calling and finds her form: the short story. In "Learning to See" section she learns, through traveling, new things about her parents. In the first section she realizes that listening to stories told by family, friends, and teachers, is the first thing she needs in order to establish her literary career. She divides her book into three sections that respectively carry the titles of "Listening", "Learning to See " and "Finding a Voice".
In her autobiography, One Writer's Beginning (1983), Welty describes her initiation into the literary world.
In short stories like "Flowers for Marjorie" and "Where is the Voice Coming From" the protagonists are grotesquely violent, lonely, and searching for recognition. Her men, on the other hand, appear to be powerless and marginalized. The American writer Eudora Welty (1909-2001)is often labeled as a Southern Gothic fiction writer whose most memorable characters are women, though some of them are grotesque and ugly.
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