They show the pride she saw among even the poorest people.
She took her celebrated photographs of Mississippians as she traveled the state for the WPA. Early in her career, Welty worked for newspapers and radio stations and served as publicity agent for President Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, the agency formed to provide work for people in Depression-racked America.
She attended Mississippi University for Women, later graduating from the University of Wisconsin and doing postgraduate work at Columbia University in New York. That's the way my eye sees, so I just use it.'' Welty was born in Jackson on April 13, 1909, and lived here almost all her life. One detail can tell more than any descriptive passage in general, you know. She once called herself ``a natural observer, and to me the details tell everything.
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What I do in writing of any character is try to enter into the mind, heart, and skin of a human being who is not myself,'' Welty wrote in 1980. ``I have been told, both in approval and in accusation, that I seem to love all my characters. Her characters include the likes of Clytie, a frustrated spinster who drowns herself in a rain barrel Lilly Daw, a feeble-minded girl who falls in love with a xylophone player Miss Teacake Magee, who sings at her own wedding and a couple of deaf-mutes who suffer indignities. ``The Ponder Heart'' and ``The Robber Bridegroom'' were made into Broadway plays. She also made the list in 1981 with ``The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.'' Other books by Welty include ``Delta Wedding'' in 1946 and ``Losing Battles'' in 1971. Her autobiography, ``One Writer's Beginnings,'' made the New York Times best-seller list in 1984 and was based on lectures she delivered at Harvard University. She also captured the many guises of poverty through her camera's lens and published pictures of Mississippians washing laundry by hand, tending a bootleg still and slaughtering hogs. They won't be the same kind of stories, but they'll be about human beings.'' ``I think you write about whatever's current. ``I'm not any kind of prophet, but I think it's in our nature to talk, to tell stories, appreciate stories,'' she said in an interview in 1991. Welty, author of ``The Ponder Heart,'' ``Losing Battles'' and ``The Optimist's Daughter,'' for which she won the Pulitzer in 1973, said fiction provided her with the most productive tool for analyzing human personality. Ginger Coke, a hospital spokeswoman, said Welty also suffered from pneumonia. Welty, who was also acclaimed for her heart-wrenching photographs of poverty in Depression-era Mississippi, died at Baptist Medical Center at 12:25 p.m. There is a thin line between art and madness sometimes.Novelist and short story writer Eudora Welty, whose meticulous depictions of life in the South won her a Pulitzer Prize, died Monday. I find it fascinating that Welty, who spend so much time focused on photographing the faces of the Depression, would have written this story. This is Clytie’s mental illness, her obsessive fascination for faces. Her face is “the face she had been looking for, and from which she had been separated.” She’s fascinated with her own face the same way she’s fascinated with everyone else’s, the difference being simply in degrees. Unlike Narcissus, she isn’t in love with herself. She does more than that in actually plunging her head into the barrel of rainwater, but it starts out as feeling mesmerized with her reflection. Clytie kills herself staring into her own reflection in the water. This is a suicide story, but it’s not so much suicide as it is a twist on the Narcissus myth. I do find myself wondering what others have said, though. I want to save the criticism for later after I’ve thoroughly immersed myself in Welty and formed my own opinions. “Clytie” makes me want to break my self-imposed rule of not reading any criticism before I blog these stories.