The intensely self-involved and utterly unreliable narrator who is known only by her relationship to a sibling she constantly complains receives better treatment is one Welty’s most fascinating figures. Her mythic first name puts her in the company of Easter and the other characters with metaphorical names, but unlike Easter, the story of Phoenix rising is almost a one-woman show. The old woman who makes her way across the symbol-laden landscape of “A Worn Path” is one of Welty’s most famous character. His transitory relationship with hitchhikers who pass in and out of his life without an imprint of one upon the other is emblematic of his entire life in which relationship with friends and lovers are as equally devoid of meaning.
Traveling salesman who picks up the titular wanderers of the road. She is described as someone so self-contained that she answers to no one and her name (chosen by herself) resonates with the mystical symbolism of resurrection when she is saved from drowning in a key event of the story. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Įnigmatic young blonde girl Easter is one of Welty’s many-many-characters endowed with metaphorical names.
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