Eudora Weltys The Ponder Heart :: Eudora Welty The Ponder Heart

Eudora Weltys The weigh brassThe New York Times posted a follow-up of Eudora Weltys The Ponder Heart on January 10, 1954. V.S. Pritchett wrote the review titled tyrannical Edna Earle Had aWord for Everything.Pritchett gives ample credit to Welty for her novel The Ponder Heart explaining it takes a good deal of experience to write such a story that deals with a complex position in the narrative (para 4). Pritchett describes the character, Edna Earle and he is intrigued by her narrative role.Identifying the characters, certain events, and the type of environment thestory takes perplex in Pritchett sets the stage of The Ponder Heart. He identifies thispiece as a lighter work, but adds there is not a splay in it (para 7). This phraseis crucial to the review because without it a reader may believe the story has littlesubstance. The statement there is not a mistake in it intrigues the mind to seewhat this book is all about(predicate).Pritchett begins the review using complex senten ces that appear to be takingthe reader nowhere, make the review weak from the very beginning. In fact, thefirst paragraph makes unrivalled believe they are reading the wrong review. Thisparagraph talks about the Irish revival and Scottish and Welsh regionalism,appearing to have postal code to do with Welty. Eventually, Pritchett ties this paragraphinto Welty comparing her as an American Southern regional writer.Pritchett states, Sometimes a regional writer becomes the professionaltopographer of local oddity. With atomic number 53 sophisticated foot outside his territory, he setsout to make his kin group quaint or freakish, and he can be said to shop to and even exploit them (para 2). The Ponder Heartis filled with oddity, as well as quaint and freakish folks making this statement definitely relevant.Describing The Ponder Heart, Pritchett does no more than give a summary ofthe story, with a hardly a(prenominal) exceptions, rather than a critique. Perhaps the book is thatsimp le, although I dont believe so.