DELTA WEDDING Delta Wedding

Delta Wedding is a story about a large family, the Fairchilds. Mr. Fairchild's first name is Battle, his wife's name is Ellen; the two had eight children together, and those children have more than a dozen aunts, uncles and cousins who either live in nearby family homes or have collected in town for the wedding, with their collection of Negro servants. The clan lives in the Mississippi Delta, which is the only geographical and psychological boundary that the Fairchild family ever experiences in Welty's book. The place which the author describes is very important because, for Welty, the place serves as an actual physical construct, much like an embracing architectural shape, within which everyth

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rriage: The gold mass of the distant shade trees seemed to dance, to sway, under the plum-colored sky. On either side of their horses' feet the cotton twinkled like stars. Then a red-pop flew up from her nest in the cotton. Above in an unbroken circle, all around the wheel of the level world, lay silvery-blue clouds whose edges melted and changed into the pink and blue of sky. Girls and horses lifted their heads like swimmers. Here and there and far away the cotton wagons, of hand-painted green, stood up to the wheel-tops in the white and were loaded with white, like clouds wagons. All along, the Negroes would lift up and smile glaringly and pump their arms. Welty's distinctive writing style also includes things observed by other senses. For instance, Welty explicitly recounts the "sound of stranger-hoofs over the bayou bridge" as well as this catalog of odors which describe the way that a dry-goods counter smelled: Every counter smelled different, from the lady-like smell of the dry-goods counter with its fussy revolving ball of string, to the manlike smell of coffee when it was ground in the back. There were areas of banana smell, medicine smell, rope and rubber and nail smell, bread smell,
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Approximate Word count = 1926
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)

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