Delta Wedding (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1946
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: September 10-19, 1923
- Setting: The fictitious town of Fairchilds, Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Laura McRaven, Ellen Fairchild, Shelley, George, Dabney
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Girls
- Locales: South (U.S.)
Form and Content
Delta Wedding discloses its subject in its title: It is a re-creation of a plantation family wedding in the Mississippi Delta in 1923. As such, it celebrates a mostly lost way of living in and interrelating within a complex society and family. The novel is unusual in both focus and structure. Sidestepping the usual fictional progression from definition of conflict to resolution, it instead brings to life a pivotal event in the life of a family, showing how this changes both individuals and group. By making the entire family central, it alters the...
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