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There are a host of Welty stories that capture Southern manners, and all of her work is dependent in one way or another on her Southern sensibilities. Of special note, however, are a story called "The Wide Net" and the novel Losing Battles (1970). In the former, a young husband and his cronies, and a parade of others collected along the way, drag the river for the body of his wife. They know all along that she is unlikely to have drowned herself, but they are unable to resist the pure theatrical pleasure of the dragging. The characters in Losing Battles, with the same...
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