"She felt again, but differently, that men were no better than little children. It was comforting, if things turned out not to be what you thought.
Her depiction of children, their actions and ways of thinking, are as realistic as any I've ever read.įavorite quotes: "You never had to grow up if you were spoiled enough. Eudora Welty's love for the natural world is much in evidence in her descriptions of the place, and she puts you right in the middle of this huge family, with conversations running all over top of each other. The Mississippi Delta is as much a character here as anyone else. All of the action takes place in the week before and few days after the wedding.
No one wants her to marry beneath her station, but there's no stopping her, so a wedding must be planned. Daphne, the 2nd oldest daughter, decides at 17 to marry the plantation overseer Troy. Wonderful, sweet, old maid aunts Primrose and Jim Allen, busybody take charge Aunt Tempe, saintly mother Ellen and her 8 children, all spoiled rotten in a nice way. A big, multi-generational, chaotic family aunts, uncles, cousins, everybody a part of the Fairchild clan, except, funnily enough, no grand-parents, now that I think of it. Daphne, the 2nd oldest daughter, decides at 17 to marry the plantation overseer Tr I first read this 2 years ago, and loved it every bit as much this time around. I first read this 2 years ago, and loved it every bit as much this time around. Delta Wedding is her best known work.more She won a Pulitzer in 1972 for The Optimist's Daughter. As the hour moves closer and closer to wedding day, Laura arrives at a more subtle understanding of both the Fairchilds and herself.īorn in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi, Eudora Welty is one of the South's finest novelists. An only child whose mother has just died, Laura is resentful of her boisterous, careless cousins, and desperate for their acceptance. The vagaries of the Fairchilds are keenly observed, and sometimes harshly judged, by nine-year-old Laura McRaven, a Fairchild cousin who takes The Yellow Dog train to the Delta for Dabney Fairchild's wedding. Set on the Mississippi Delta in 1923, this story captures the mind and manners of the Fairchilds, a large aristocratic family, self-contained and elusive as the wind.
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