Why I Live At The Po Analysis
Dysfunctional Damsels What is worse, a mysterious disappearance that results in a child or one that results in death? Two women, two authors, and two different stories raise that question and leaves many people to speculate the right answer. Eudora Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” and William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” are the hosts of the two characters Stella Rondo and Miss Emily Grierson respectively, and both stories show the unique, yet cryptic tales of two women’s roles in a town and family. Welty’s “Why I Live at the P.O.” speaks as an explanation of a story that includes a strange family, which the narrator and Stella-Rondo are a part of, that is controlled by authority struggles, lies, and issues that eventually pushes the narrator
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Remaining unchanged dictates the plots for Stella-Rondo and Miss Emily because whether it be a constant attitude or home life, they refuse to adjust to their environments in age. At the beginning of “Why I Live at the P.O.,” Stella-Rondo’s character is described as “spoiled” and as that, “She’s always had anything in the world she wanted and then she’d throw it away” (Welty 1). She is devious in maintaining her wants by any means necessary and refuses to let anyone get in her way. After getting accused of having a child in her absence, Stella-Rondo’s first instinct was to turn Papa-Daddy against Sister to save face. She constantly fabricates reports throughout Welty’s story to aid her cause of isolating her sister in favor of herself. Parallel in static defiance to revolution, Emily Grierson despises the idea of anything that is not classically old fashioned and similar to her youth. Mr. Grierson’s death affects Emily, but after being entangled in her grief she “…told them that her father was not dead,” (Faulkner 223) and refused to let them bury him for a while after his demise. Following sometime after his death, Emily, wanting her home to stay the same as when her father lived, “…refused to let them …show more content…
Eudora Welty and William Faulkner create well-developed women in Stella-Rondo and Miss Emily’s personalities and character that potentially teaches other women to learn by example. These stories illustrate how drastically family and attitude influence the maturity in every person
Remaining unchanged dictates the plots for Stella-Rondo and Miss Emily because whether it be a constant attitude or home life, they refuse to adjust to their environments in age. At the beginning of “Why I Live at the P.O.,” Stella-Rondo’s character is described as “spoiled” and as that, “She’s always had anything in the world she wanted and then she’d throw it away” (Welty 1). She is devious in maintaining her wants by any means necessary and refuses to let anyone get in her way. After getting accused of having a child in her absence, Stella-Rondo’s first instinct was to turn Papa-Daddy against Sister to save face. She constantly fabricates reports throughout Welty’s story to aid her cause of isolating her sister in favor of herself. Parallel in static defiance to revolution, Emily Grierson despises the idea of anything that is not classically old fashioned and similar to her youth. Mr. Grierson’s death affects Emily, but after being entangled in her grief she “…told them that her father was not dead,” (Faulkner 223) and refused to let them bury him for a while after his demise. Following sometime after his death, Emily, wanting her home to stay the same as when her father lived, “…refused to let them …show more content…
Eudora Welty and William Faulkner create well-developed women in Stella-Rondo and Miss Emily’s personalities and character that potentially teaches other women to learn by example. These stories illustrate how drastically family and attitude influence the maturity in every person