Nehemie KabeyaMr. John Prince

Writing About Literature

March 19, 2021

A visit of charity

In short, by Eudora Welty about a visit to charity, different themes and moods are displayed in different parts of the story. This story also comprises many other types of organization and information, which are essential in understanding what the author is trying to out across. The general mood displayed in the short story is dark. Marian does not find what she expected in the hospital room, where she meets with the two older women. The mood can also be discussed as foreboding as Marian senses that the place was to be awkward from the first moment she steps in and realizes the wet floor (Welty, 217). Therefore Welty uses different means to achieve this and to tell the story of Marian whereby she is not inside the story, and therefore this gives her authority and ability to read the minds of the characters even though she does not utilize this feature in her story.

Eudora Welty was a resident of Mississippi, and her work is generally known for its exploration of the south’s culture. This culture is of essentiality in American society and knowledge since it helps us understand and interpret her work in the face of the southern part, which helps us borrow from her and know the culture. She has authored dozens of short stories and six novels. In 1973 she won the Pulitzer Prize, which was awarded to recognize her novel the optimist’s daughter. She also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom as well as the southern border. She was the first to have her works published in the library of America when she was still alive.

In this short story, the writer’s main means are making us understand it better and showing us how the interaction between the characters goes on concretely is shown through dialogue. This is an essential part as dialogue helps us see the characters as just telling to one another, and therefore it becomes easy for us to understand what they say. The dialogue is very well constructed and developed. Even though it develops into the negative side, it still develops. The characters, especially the two very vocal women, try to understand each other, which is an essential part of the short story. The dialogue begins with the nurse welcoming Marian to the hospital. Without Marian’s knowledge, she tells the nurse she could take her anywhere, and that is how she ends up with these two ladies. At first sight, the women ask if she was a campfire girl (Welty, 218); she responds with a yes, and therefore they say they had another one of her kind the previous week. Even though the ladies are somehow unkind in the way they describe the other campfire girl who came to read the bible to them, it is still of the dialogue, and it serves to provide the audience with the real feeling of a person.

Welty also uses symbolism to portray the different features of the story. Symbolism is mainly used to show one thing as a clue to something’s real meaning, as it is used in this short story. One of the instances whereby symbolism is used is whereby she alights at dark prickly shrubs (Welty, 216), Therefore from this, we see that even though it means something different, it can be used to symbolize the mood as well as the general experience of the visit as it was not pleasant. This symbolism shows how this inability to arrive at the desired results was depicted earlier enough through symbolism. The lady’s talk can be said to be a symbol state of being irritated by the ladies. We find that the mobile lady is not as talkative as the immobile, bedridden one, and therefore the bedridden talks a lot. She, at some point, sheds tears which might symbolize how she has been suffering and all the bad experiences she has gone through (Welty, 220).

The setting of the short story also enables Welty to tell her story in a very good manner. The story’s action is taking place in a hospital setting, and it is in a hospital setting that Marian finds these ladies. They are in hospital supports their manner of behavior and taking since they may be under medication for some disease or just a condition which they have and which makes them behave in such way. Therefore, the playset can be said to be congruent with the message of the short story.

Welty in this novel also deploys imagery. The imagery is the visual representation of the description, which helps us form concrete mental photos of what is happening, is essential and nice. In this, from the way, the short story is discussed t becomes easy for a person to imagine the hospital and the two older women talking, and therefore, this creation of mental pictures makes the message of the short story even more understandable.

In conclusion, therefore we can say that Welty is one of the very good writers who uses her ability to write to look into the issues which the society is facing as well as talking about the daily activities of a person in a creative manner to communicate effectively to the reader and the audience.

Works cited

Welty, Eudora. The collected stories of Eudora Welty. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1982