‘The waiting arms of Missouri’: human connections and sheltered lives in Eudora Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter

This paper reads The Optimist’s Daughter based on the symbolic, silent, and scarce presence of Missouri, the black housekeeper of the Mckelva’s house. On the one hand, her presence in the novel is rare and subsidiary; on the other hand, her presence signals Laurel’s sheltered life and her need for h...

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Autor principal: Alves, Isabel Maria Fernandes (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2014
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/10048
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/10048