Why I Live at the P.O. | Critical Overview
When it appeared in 1941, Welty’s first book, A Curtain of Green, was met with mostly good reviews. However, reviewers who made up the northern literary establishment tended to find Welty’s characters abnormal, a quality they chauvinistically associated with the South. ‘‘Like many Southern writers, she has a strong taste for melodrama and is preoccupied with the demented, the deformed, the queer, the highly spiced,’’ reads a Time review. A mixed review in Books includes a similar comment: ‘‘As a whole, A Curtain of Green shows too great a...
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