Comparing Eudora Welty's Losing Battles And Delta Wedding

Eudora Welty became one of the greatest authors because of her descriptive writing in all of her books. Back then there wasn’t any internet, and a television was a new invention. People couldn’t just read about a place and understand it full fully. They also couldn’t just go to a computer and look up any word they didn’t know. Eudora Welty changed everything with her writing. She would make people comprehend exactly what the sky looked like at noon or what a house looked like with every single detail. She showed all her descriptiveness through characterization, the setting, and the theme. In both of Eudora Welty’s books, Losing Battles and Delta Wedding, the characters are the main part of the story. The conversations that the families have in each book are just like a Southern discussion. They are all over the place and you have to come back to the main topic because you get off telling a whole completely different story. Eudora Welty wanted the readers to see the “power of revealing something” (The Atlantic). Every character in her books had something revealed about them. Their looks, their personality, and their character. In “Losing Battles”, Jack the oldest boy was like the boy next door. He didn’t do anything wrong, but the minute someone messed with

In Delta Wedding, Shellmound is the center of everything that happens. Eudora makes you feel like you are right there in the moment. When she describes Laura’s trip on the train, you could imagine the wood propping the window open and the yellow butterfly zipping through all the windows. But the most important thing is their home. Home is the setting for both of the books, it reveals the characters real personalities and why they reacted a certain way. With “Delta Wedding” the women only had their homes to hold on to. All their husbands were gone and in the war. They could only protect themselves, their family, and their southern