The Optimist's Daughter | Themes
In One Writer's Beginnings/ Eudora Welty discusses her lifelong awareness of time. In The Optimist's Daughter, an example of the highly introspective fiction that Welty has called "inside stories," Laurel must become aware of time and learn to deal with the changes it brings. Unlike the rose everyone refers to as "Becky's climber," the human characters cannot continue to thrive indefinitely. When the novel opens, Becky McKelva has already been dead for more than ten years, and within a few pages the Judge too dies. The remainder of the novel chronicles Laurel's thoughts and...
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