The Robber Bridegroom | Techniques
Vital to all of Welty's work is the knitting together of the actual and the imaginative. As she says in One Writer's Beginnings (1984), "My imagination takes its strength and guides its direction from what I see and hear and learn and feel and remember of my living world." Nowhere is this more apparent than in The Robber Bridegroom where she uses an actual setting in an historical frame and peoples it with figures from both history and fantasy. (The Harp brothers were flesh and blood outlaws, and Mike Fink was a legendary flatboatman on the Mississippi River.) Some of the...
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