One Writer's Beginnings Eudora Welty Analysis

In the passage One Writer’s Beginnings, Eudora Welty’s language conveys intensity and value of the experiences she mentioned in the autobiography by showing her determination and love for reading. First she says “Her dragon eye on the front door, where who knew what kind of person might come in from the public?” This example shows intensity because she compares the librarian’s eyes to a dragon creating imagery, which makes me infer that the librarian was mean and very alert about the kind of people who came inside of her library. Another example is when she says “You could just put on another petticoat if you wanted a book that badly from the public library. I was willing; I would do anything to read.” She explains how determined she was to