Why I Live at the P.O. | Social Concerns
The small Southern town is Welty's typical setting, and this story is no exception. The "Edna Earle" (please see entry on The Ponder Heart, 1954) of the story, who remains nameless, is postmistress of the "next-to-smallest P.O. in the entire state of Mississippi." Like Edna Earle Ponder, she has captured the ear of some unidentified listener. This listener is probably a customer of the post office where "Sister," as she is called in the family, has moved in the wake of a family dispute in which she perceives everyone to have turned against her. The narrator's younger sister,...
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