A Memory (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1936
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: A lake near Jackson, Mississippi
- Principal Characters: The narrator, A family
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Girls, United States or Americans, Memory, Adolescence, Teenagers, Love or romance, South or Southerners, 1930’s
- Locales: Jackson, MS
The Story
The narrator remembers herself as a young teenager, lying beside a lake after her usual morning swim. In early adolescence, she judged everyone and everything and reacted so timidly to the physical world around her that she could bear to observe things only through a frame she made with her hands.
Through this frame she sees herself projected onto the world. Every leaf that falls, every bird that flies overhead, she imagines is trying to signal her, to leave her some message. Each moment is fraught with the heightened significance adolescents impose on their...
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