For the most part, we will read Welty's works in the order she wrote and published them. The one exception to this chronological approach will be The Eye of the Story , a collection of her essays and reviews, which we will sprinkle through the semester. All of these works introduce Welty's most frequently used fictional donee, the Mississippi Delta country and the Natchez Trace, the beginnings of some of her stylistic experiments, her favorite themes, local color and eccentric characters, and her frequent use of mythology, fantasy, and dreams in creating and developing her narratives. TOD demonstrates that there are more ways than one to be dead in this world and more ways than one to be alive. One Writer's Beginnings , an autobiographical memoir, draws important intertextual connections with The Optimist's Daughter and further elucidates a number of the tensions central to TOD .
Art perhaps does imitate life.
24-26 Strategies for Lit. Keeping in mind the difference between an observation and an argumentative thesis, write a thesis for your assigned story. If applicable, I recommend that you dovetail this assignment with your presentation or with your major paper topic research. Or, for online writing and documenting assistance, go to the UVIC Writer's Guide . If applicable, I recommend that you dovetail this assignment with your presentation or with your major paper topic research.