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While the title of songs poem is the youngest daughter, because the speaker is the youngest of six children, the speaker is no longer young. This summary of the optimists daughter includes a complete plot overview spoilers included. Laurel mckelva hand leaves her job as a textile designer in chicago, to go back home to the south when her father calls because hes sick. Those who didnt enjoy the topsyturvy eccentricity of losing battles will be happy to find miss welty back in the changeless countryside of her earlier short novels where memory is the eternal revenant keeping alive places and people often in the mortmain of the past. Large cast of characters and complex relationships. The optimist s daughter is the story of laurel mckelva hand, a young woman who has left the south and returns, years later, to. The optimists daughter by eudora welty overdrive rakuten. This book provides the first comprehensive evidence, from. Alone in the old house, laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.
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Two nights later, laurel had already undressed in her room at the hibiscus, but somehow felt compelled. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small mississippi town where she grew up. I already read it, but i found out that i have to write an outline for it. Complete summary of eudora weltys the optimists daughter.
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