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In conclusion, it has been sufficiently demonstrated that Welty's recurring motif in "Death of a Traveling Salesman" and in "A Worn Path" is the treating of human relationships, which are inherently founded in human nature and which can be evinced from such human principles of love, devotion, and spirituality. The author has purposefully repeated this theme in many of her works to accurately portray real life, since it was the living, breathing world (through the author's interpretation) which engendered these tales. Readers would benefit from the review of...
"Eudora Welty." The Mississippi Writer's Page. 2005. Web. http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/welty_eudora/#T2
Sederberg, Nancy. "Welty's Death of a Traveling Salesman." The Explicator. Vol.42 1983. Web. http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=96539565
Seltzer, Catherine. "Pondering Hearts: Studies of Eudora Welty and Josephine Pinckney."
The Southern Literary Journal - Volume 41, Number 1, Fall 2008, pp. 145-150 .Print.
Welty, Eudora. One Writer's Beginnings. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1984. Print.
Welty, Eudora. The Eye of the Story. New York: Random House. 1990. Print.
Welty, Eudora. "Death of a Traveling Salesman" 1941. Web. http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng423/restricted/2welty.pdf
Welty, Eudora. "A Worn Path" from the Oxford Book of the American South. New York: Oxford Press. Web. http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng423/restricted/2welty.pdf
Works Cited
Johnston, Carol Ann. "Eudora Welty." The Mississippi Writer's Page. 2005. Web. http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/welty_eudora/#T2
Sederberg, Nancy. "Welty's Death of a Traveling Salesman." The Explicator. Vol.42 1983. Web. http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst?docId=96539565
Seltzer, Catherine. "Pondering Hearts: Studies of Eudora Welty and Josephine Pinckney."
The Southern Literary Journal - Volume 41, Number 1, Fall 2008, pp. 145-150 .Print.
Welty, Eudora. "Death of a Traveling Salesman" 1941. Web. http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng423/restricted/2welty.pdf
Welty, Eudora. "A Worn Path" from the Oxford Book of the American South. New York: Oxford Press. Web. http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/eng423/restricted/2welty.pdf
The solid fact that Sister has remained a fixture in the house and should have the greater claim to her mother's attention is dazzled away by the return of Stella-Rondo. The mother's indecision and vacillation is somewhat comic as she continues to insist that "I prefer to take my children's word for anything when it's humanly possible" (5). Deciding which child to believe is her character's conflict. Because Welty
Corresponding Works There is a lot of similarity in the works of Robert in his poem "The Road Not Taken" and the short story by Welty "A Worn Path." Frost composed the poem in 1916, whereas Welty wrote the short story in 1941. Both of these written works are for the readers to think outside the box and find the true meanings. These writings have a hidden meaning to them