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Perhaps the clearest parallel to The Optimist's Daughter is Welty's first full-length novel, Delta Wedding (1946). Both works portray a family involved in a significant ritual: a marriage in Delta Wedding and a funeral in The Optimist's Daughter. In each case the family also must deal with an outsider of a different social class; Troy Flavin of Delta Wedding is only slightly more acceptable to the clannish Fairchild family than Fay is to Laurel and the women of Mount Salus. In fact, both novels capture the dual nature of the close-knit southern family...
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