OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER
by Eudora Welty
Welty won the Pulitzer prize of 1973 for this story about Laurel McKelva Hand who is in her forties and became a war widow. Years ago, she left the south but returns to New Orleans to be with her father as he under goes surgery for a little disturbance in his eye sight. Events lead her to spend time in her Mississippi child hood home with her step mother, a self absorbed younger woman, and comes to an under standing of the past, her parents, her marriage, and her self.
by Eudora Welty
Welty won the Pulitzer prize of 1973 for this story about Laurel McKelva Hand who is in her forties and became a war widow. Years ago, she left the south but returns to New Orleans to be with her father as he under goes surgery for a little disturbance in his eye sight. Events lead her to spend time in her Mississippi child hood home with her step mother, a self absorbed younger woman, and comes to an under standing of the past, her parents, her marriage, and her self.
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