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Eudora Weltys Livvie Essay Research Paper A

Eudora Welty?s ?Livvie? Essay, Research Paper


A Celebration of life Eudora Welty?s ?Livvie?, is a great story on how


life should be celebrated. The story is about a young woman , who marries and


old man, that in a since imprisons her. The young girl gets a second chance at


life when a younger man (someone her own age) enters her life and the older man


is about to die. The theme Welty is trying to get across is live life to the


fullest. Welty shows the theme through the character, setting, and symbols.


Characters played a big role in the story. First, Solomon who is the husband of


young woman. His name kind of explains what type of man he is going to be in the


story. Solomon was the king of Israel and in the story Welty provides


information that Solomon is playing a king type role. Welty says Solomon had a


bed ?like a throne? (511). ?Solomon had never let Livvie go any farther


than the chicken house and the well. (515). Welty shows the control Solomon has


over Livvie (the young girl). Another sign of control that Welty shows in the


story is, ?Solomon would not have let Livvie look at them, just as he would


not let her look at a field hand or a field hand look at her? (512-513). He


does not realize how unappreciative he is making Livvie. Livvie, her name too


has a symbol. It means ?life? or ?live?. ?She is unable to live her


life Watt 2 under Solomon?s strict rule (Sample Short Story Analysis). Solomon


is not letting her live her life. Therefore, she cannot appreciate the few


things in life that he has given to her. Miss Baby Marie and Cash shine a little


light on the story. They both kind of persuade Livvie to go out and explore life


a little more. Marie does so by showing Livvie what the outer world has to


offer. Example about cosmetics, Livvie gets so excited about the color of the


lipstick. It must remind her of something in life. Cash?s youth attracts


Livvie. The setting also plays a significant part in the story. The story is set


up in a nice isolated area. It is in the spring around Easter. By Solomon


staying in an isolated area which was unfamiliar to Li

vvie, he had all control


over her. At the time she was only a girl. This way Solomon could control who


sees Livvie and who does not. Easter also represents a meaning in the story.


Welty lets the audience know it is around Easter when Cash says, ?I ready for


Easter? (520). Easter means the ?rebirth?. It is a turning point for


Livvie in the story. She is in the process of living a lifestyle of isolation to


living a life of great opportunities. Welty lets the audience know Cash is going


to be the one to lead Livvie to this life of great opportunities. Welty wrote


?It might be if he had not appeared the way he did appear that day she would


never have looked so closely at him, but the time people come makes a


difference? (519). Cash shows up at the time. Solomon is dying and Livvie is


ready to go out and see what the world has to offer. Welty uses great symbols to


support the theme. One example of symbolism that Welty provides is the bottle


trees. The bottle trees were suppose to keep evil spirits Watt 3 way. In this


case the bottle trees were supposed to protect Livvie from the evil spirits.


Solomon made one tree each year to keep people like cash from coming to take his


lovely wife away from him.. One day in the next year cash threw a rock into one


of the bottles. This means there is room for one evil spirit to get hold to


Solomon?s wife which happens to be Cash. Welty proves this when, ?So here


come the man Livvie wait for. Was no prevention. No prevention. Now I lay eyes


on young man and it come to be somebody I know all the time, and been knowing


since we were born in a cotton patch, and watched grow up year to year, Cash


McCord growed to size growed up to come in my house in the end ragged and


barefoot? (522). Livvie is basically a story about a young woman whose life is


stolen away from her. An older man marries her and moves her far away from


everyday life. In the end when the old man is dying, a second opportunity to


live life is available. Welty?s theme live life to the fullest is thought of


because everyone is given this second chance.


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