The Optimist's Daughter | Essays and Criticism
- The Importance of the Concept of Home
In the following essay, the author discusses the importance of the concept of home to two women characters in Welty's novel. Bussey briefly relates autobiographical information about Welty to show how the author's own experience is reflected in Laurel's experience.
- Image and Myth in Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter
In the following essay, Mortimer analyzes how Welty "enhances the implications of her images" in The Optimist's Daughter.
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