The Ponder Heart (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: Early 1950’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Regional fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Family or family life, South or Southerners, Trials, Mississippi, Small-town life, Mental retardation, Philanthropy or philanthropists
- Locales: Memphis, TN, Clay, MS, Jackson, MS
Places Discussed
Clay. Small county-seat town fifty miles north of Jackson in Mississippi that has at its heart that requisite of all southern towns, the courthouse square. Across the street is the Beulah Hotel, which only fills when court convenes and brings the town to life. Next door is the movie theater, with offices on the second floor for Ponder family friend, Judge Tip Clanahan. The Presbyterian church, spiritual home to the town’s elite, faces the more bourgeois Baptist church. Nearby are the post office and the ten-cent store where Uncle Daniel finds his child...
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