Literary Analysis: Southern Culture and Customs in Local Color Within the Short Stories of Flannery OConnor and Eudora Welty
This paper will discuss the authors Eudora Welty and Flannery OConnor and reflect the customary character of the Southern Bell as the polite and dignified woman who must always present this image in their behaviors. Also, we can see how these Southern Bells interact with the backwoods cultural milieu they must invariably take part of. Whether be amongst inter-family relations or with strangers these literary devices elucidate the Local Color school of writing that Welty and OConnor used since its origins in the 1890s.