Why I Live at the P.O. | Rigidity and Rebirth: Eudora Welty and Women’s Comedy
In the following essay, Peter Schmidt employs character analyses for detailed insight into Welty’s story.
One way to think of the Rondo family in ‘‘Why I Live at the P.O.’’ is as an exceptionally noisy family of paper cutouts. Certainly the characters are as delightfully two-dimensional, and as farcically posed, as the cutouts described in ‘‘Women!!’’ but the story is also a comedy about fashion, gender differences, and power.
‘‘Why I Live at the P.O.’’ is set in China Grove, Mississippi, and features Sister as the narrator, Stella-Rondo (her younger sister), Papa-Daddy (Sister’s grandfather), Mama (Sister’s mother), Uncle Rondo, Stella-Rondo’s...
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