Read Eudora Welty’s short-short story WhyI Live at the P.O. Even though this story is extremely short westill see a journey so does the Narrator’s journey ultimately have a beneficialimpact on her...

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    Read Eudora Welty’s short-short story Why I Live at the P.O. Even though this story is extremely short we still see a journey so does the Narrator’s journey ultimately have a beneficial impact on her life or a negative impact? Finally, if your P.O. Narrator could travel to another of the stories we have read or viewed this Semester where do you think she would fit most comfortably?
    Eudora Welty’s short story “Why I Live at the P.O.” (1941) deals with Sister, a woman profoundly isolated in her own house, as she recounts her reasons for deciding to live at the post office. The story can be read as a journey from her house, where she feels intensely mistreated and wronged, to the post office, her work place where she claims to enjoy a certain degree of autonomy and independence. The actions of the story are presented to us from Sister’s perspective and she controls the narrative by carefully placing the members of her family and their actions at the centre of our attention.
    Sister’s eventual self-exile is foregrounded at the very onset of the story- "I was getting along fine with Mama, Papa-Daddy and Uncle Rondo until my sister Stella-Rondo just separated from her husband and came back home again” (Welty 119 ). At the beginning of the narrative, it is easy to sympathize with Sister’s outrage and anger as the obvious absurdity of what her family members say and do is not lost on the readers. She projects herself as a victim but as the actions of the story unfold it becomes...