Eudora Welty's Why I Live At The P. O.

Why I live at the P.O. is a short story written by Eudora Welty in 1983. This short story is about Sister and the Rondo family. Sister is our main character and the narrator of the story. This essay will be about the character traits of sister and weather her perspective of the situation is a trustworthy one since the entire story is coming from her point of view. The first character that we meet other than sister is Stella Rondo and Shirley T. Stella is sister's sister and Shirley T is Stella's “adopted” daughter. In the first part of this short story Stella Rondo comes home unexpectedly and brings her two year old “adopted” daughter who just so happens to be the spitting image of Papa Daddy. Sister never really liked Stella because she was incredibly spoiled. This immediately makes Stella the enemy because from the narrator's point of view Stella is not a very good person. I think one of Sisters main character traits is her doubtfulness. She doesn't believe a word out of Stella's mouth because she is “spoiled.” As evidence from the sixth paragraph she is incredibly doubtful of Stella's story about Shirley T being adopted “Sister, I don't need to tell you you got a lot of nerve and always did have and I'll thank you to make no future reference to my adopted child whatsoever.’ ‘Very well,’ I said. Very well, very well.”
Perhaps that is why she is so doubtful of Stella Rondo's adoption story. She is resentful that her parents treated Stella with more care than Sister and the fact that Papa Daddy called her a hussy and ungrateful for her job at the P.O. does not help. She feels as if Stella had been treated better her whole life so whenever she comes home she is incredibly doubtful and resentful towards