The Ponder Heart (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Regional
- Time of Work: Early 1950’s
- Setting: Clay, a small town in Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Miss Edna Earl Ponder, Uncle Daniel Ponder, Bonnie Dee Peacock Ponder
- 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
The Story:
Uncle Daniel, who was rich as Croesus and correspondingly generous, was not very bright, but he looked impressive and neat as a pin. He invariably wore spotless white suits and a red bow tie and carried a huge Stetson hat just swept off his head. Kept under his father’s thumb until he was mature, he was for a long time unable to be as generous as his nature dictated. He had given Edna Earl the hotel she ran, but his father had been glad to get rid of it. The cattle and fields he gave away were easily retrieved. People liked him because he always gave something...
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