ENG364Y1 Study Guide - Eudora Welty, Conjoined Twins
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Welty northern writer writing about the south. 200 changes to original to make it funnier. Open awash in voices voices important in her writing. She felt it was american, not regional (southern: but she"s situation us in a particular place with specific voices. Description at opening is grotesque and cruel. Gossip women nasty to each other. Women being made into freaks: freakshow on other side of wall, ugly in appearance and in actions. All references are reversed not what typically think about being pregnant: think about being pregnant description of mrs. montjoy in labour but wanting to look good. Freakshow common : in vacant lot, grotesque description of conjoined twins, pygmies description can you imagine if husband very strange, all men are freaks in a way, petrified man description grotesque. Mind reader says she"ll come into money & she does. Petrified man = rapist = mr. petrie. Look @ the way she describes /raped woman.
