No Place for You, My Love (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1951
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The late 1940's
- Setting: New Orleans, the Mississippi River delta
- Principal Characters: A northern man, A northern woman
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, 1940’s, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, Mississippi River, New Orleans, Louisiana, Automobiles, Isolation
- Locales: New Orleans, LA, Mississippi River
The Story
Eudora Welty uses a limited authorial voice in “No Place for You, My Love,” although on several occasions, she enters the consciousness of the two central characters. These characters reveal few facts about themselves, especially the woman, and the authorial voice reveals little more directly. However, although the facts of the characters’ lives and their feelings are not revealed, the details of their drive through the delta are clearly described.
A man and a woman, both northerners and strangers to each other, are accidentally brought together at a...
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