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

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In Eudora Welty’s story, “Why I Live at The P.O”, Welty writes about a girl and her family from the south. This true southern family deals with their ups and down starting from when the little sister name Stella-Rondo came back home after splitting with husband whom once use to date her older sister (the narrator) with a little girl she claims that she adopted. Ever since she came home, things started spiraling down quickly for Sister as Stella-Rondo made everyone in the family turn against her she then had enough and moves away to the P.O. where she works. Although family has a strong bond and meaning, isolation one self is the best solution. The story is in first person basing off of Sister’s point of view. She describes each family member …show more content…

In this story Sister deals with internal conflict with herself and external conflict with her sister. She deals with the issue of holding in her anger and frustration towards her family because of the lack of appreciation for what she does for them, instead her own sister makes her whole family turn against her, she eventually had enough and tries to do what’s best for her and tries to get away from all the drama but even being away she’s still emotionally attached to her family and all the drama tied to them. The external conflict with her sister dealt ever since they were little, Stella-Rondo was the youngest and the most spoiled and the fact that Stella-Rondo stole Sister’s man away from her was a pretty big deal, she stated, “Of course I went with Mr. Whitaker first, when he first appeared here in China Grove, taking ‘Pose Yourself’ photos, and Stella-Rondo broke us up. Told him I was one-sided” (Welty 164). Stella-Rondo seems to get everyone to turn against Sister and get them to side with her instead. Throughout the whole story the two bicker and argue, eventually Sister confronts each of her family member including Stella-Rondo and left home to the

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