TITLE:
Narrative Techniques and Thematic Significance in Eudora Welty’s “Powerhouse”
AUTHORS:
Yan Fang
KEYWORDS:
Eudora Welty, Powerhouse, Focalization, Narration, Perspective
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Literary Study,
Vol.10 No.4,
October
26,
2022
ABSTRACT: Eudora Welty is an American short-story writer and novelist whose work is mainly focused with great precision on the regional manners of people inhabiting a small Mississippi town. “Powerhouse” is one of the most debatable short stories, which appears in her first collection—A Curtain of Green. In this story, Welty subtly presents her criticism of racism and segregation by means of masterly narrative techniques: focalization and narration. In addition, she reveals the failure of human’s mutual understanding.