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cmtynan's review
4.0
Welty’s powers of description make her stories come alive. She gets inside her characters thoughts and personalities so well. I enjoyed these very much.
quoththegirl's review
3.0
I didn’t think I’d read the title story (I don’t remember doing so, anyway), but I think I must have, because I remembered a line word for word when I ran across it again. A woman is carrying a baby past a train window: ”It was a red-haired boy with queenly jowls, squinting in at the world as if to say, ‘Will what has just been said be very kindly repeated?’ ” I love Welty’s talent for description such as that. In terms of plot, some of the stories are a little lackluster, but it doesn’t even really matter too much when you have these images to enjoy.
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