Remembrance and Forgetfulnes in Eudora Welty's "The Optimist’s Daughter"

Memory is a common theme of Southern literature. Eudora Welty's novel "Girls of Optimism" is no exception. It strongly demands memory of two aspects of memorial and oblivion. The vivid dichotomy of memory can be seen as a blessing and a burden. Characters in this novel, like many other southern literary works, are fighting the past they want to preserve, but they can not be perfect and they want to escape from the past, but they are completely over Absent.

Eudora Welty's novel 'The Daughter of the Optimist' depicts Laurel McKleva's reaction to the recent loss of his father and her past acceptance. A widow from the Chicago, Laurel McReva, returned to Mississippi to help the widow's father Clint McRaeva. Laurel also tried to deal with her new stepmother, Fay, while coping with the pressure to calm and collect his father. Fay is much younger than Clint, just like that.

Memory is a common theme of Southern literature. Eudora Welty's novel "Girls of Optimism" is no exception. It strongly demands memory of two aspects of memorial and oblivion. The vivid dichotomy of memory can be seen as a blessing and a burden. Characters in this novel, like many other southern literary works, are fighting the past they want to preserve, but they can not be perfect and they want to escape from the past, but they are completely over Absent.

In 1936, when she was 27 years old, Eudora Welty published her first short story. In the 1940 's, her novel received an important literary award. She was an optimistic girl, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for autobiographical novels published in 1972. When she published the first book "Green Curtains" in 1941, she lived in this house. This house keeps the lifetime of Welti until death at the age of 92 in 2001.