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Why I Live at the P.O.

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Why I Live at the P.O., short story by Eudora Welty, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1941 and collected in A Curtain of Green (1941). This comic monologue by Sister, a young woman in a small Mississippi town who has set up housekeeping in the post office to escape from her eccentric family, is a prime example of Southern Gothic writing. As Sister’s story of betrayal and injustice unfolds, the reader gradually becomes aware that Sister’s view of the world is as strange as that of the various members of her family. The narrow-minded and hostile characters are ...(100 of 144 words)

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