Dec 20, 2009
Where Is the Voice Coming From? | Where Is the Voice Coming From?
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Plot: Psychological, impressionistic
- Time of Work: Summer, 1963
- Setting: Thermopylae, a small southern town
- Principal Characters: The narrator, His critical wife, Roland Summers
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Discrimination, 1960’s, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Assassination, Small-town life
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story
In “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” plot becomes subordinate to character
as an anonymous speaker, the “voice” of the title, reveals his innermost thoughts
in a stream-of-consciousness monologue. The action of the story is largely internal, in the mind
and memory of this narrator, as he recalls recent conversations with his wife as well as his role in
the death of Roland Summers, an African American civil rights leader in the small town of
Thermopylae. The story concludes with the only external action in present time as the speaker
begins to play his...
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