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Eudora Welty

A Visit of Charity

Fiction | Short Story | YA | Published in 1941

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Essay Topics

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What is the tone of this story at the beginning when Marian arrives at the “Old Ladies’ Home”? How does the tone shape your expectations for what is to come?

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What literary techniques does Welty use to contrast Marian and the two women she visits in the Old Ladies’ Home?

3.

The unnamed woman says to Marian that she has a “You have a nice multiflora cineraria there”(137). How does her knowledge of plants shape your reading of the exchange that happens in the old women’s room?

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