A Piece of News (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1930's
- Setting: Southern United States
- Principal Characters: Ruby Fisher, Clyde Fisher
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Husbands, United States or Americans, Wives, South or Southerners, Rural or country life, 1930’s, Depression, mental
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story
Ruby, a southern woman, has come in from the rain and is drying herself off and talking to herself. The scene is a primitive and remote cabin, perhaps in the author's native Mississippi. That she talks to herself so easily indicates that she is used to being alone. She cries out in astonishment that the sample of coffee on the table is wrapped in newspaper, and the narrator relates that “She must have been lonesome and slow all her life, the way things would take her by surprise.”
Ruby suffers from cabin fever, a depression resulting from a nearly total...
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