Why I Live at the P.O. | Techniques
As has been noted, Welty uses the same narrative technique in this story as she had used in The Ponder Heart, a technique she describes as a "monologue that takes possession of the speaker." This, of course, is one of the things that casts her work as popular fiction, giving it a down-home, folksy flavor. Welty's humor in this story is a special kind; it grows out of the tension that arises between pure comedy for its own sake and serious family disruption. The family is enjoying the battle, and Sister relishes stomping out with anything in the house that she can reasonably lay...
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