The Outside of the Inside
“Deliver us all from the naked in heart;” Eudora Welty uses this phrase in her short story “No Place for You, My Love” to emphasize the unnamed woman’s desire to hide her inner emotions (Welty 394). The Lord’s Prayer utilizes the phrase; deliver us from evil, as a way to ask to be saved from sins. Having a naked heart can be compared to wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve, an act of revealing all emotions to the world. Therefore, to deliver someone from the naked in heart would be to keep one from becoming transparent to the world. A romantic rendezvous taken by Eudora Welty and Carvel Collins is the main contributor to “No Place for You, My Love.” Like the characters of the story, the two met while eating lunch at Galatoire’s in New Orleans and eventually venture to Venice, Louisiana (Dixon 389). Because Welty never had a successful romantic relationship, her desire of fulfilling that need for love reflects in these characters (Dixon 389). Welty characterizes the man and woman of the story in a surreal pathetic fallacy by using …show more content…
The two share their first similarity when they agree upon the heat’s depression, but this could also be a reflection of themselves and their loneliness. They are both unhappy with their lives; so in an effort to leave reality behind, they venture out. Welty paints this unrefined portrait of Venice that seems ever so perfect for any romantic possibilities aside from the warning imageries of death along the road. The death symbolizes that they are unwelcome to the place and that nothing of a romantic sense will occur. Even upon their return to the city he states, “We’re alright now” (Welty 400). Meaning there is a sense of discomfort towards nature and they are back to the comfort of the city. Welty displays this bizarre illustration towards the end of the story of the beautiful
“Deliver us all from the naked in heart;” Eudora Welty uses this phrase in her short story “No Place for You, My Love” to emphasize the unnamed woman’s desire to hide her inner emotions (Welty 394). The Lord’s Prayer utilizes the phrase; deliver us from evil, as a way to ask to be saved from sins. Having a naked heart can be compared to wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve, an act of revealing all emotions to the world. Therefore, to deliver someone from the naked in heart would be to keep one from becoming transparent to the world. A romantic rendezvous taken by Eudora Welty and Carvel Collins is the main contributor to “No Place for You, My Love.” Like the characters of the story, the two met while eating lunch at Galatoire’s in New Orleans and eventually venture to Venice, Louisiana (Dixon 389). Because Welty never had a successful romantic relationship, her desire of fulfilling that need for love reflects in these characters (Dixon 389). Welty characterizes the man and woman of the story in a surreal pathetic fallacy by using …show more content…
The two share their first similarity when they agree upon the heat’s depression, but this could also be a reflection of themselves and their loneliness. They are both unhappy with their lives; so in an effort to leave reality behind, they venture out. Welty paints this unrefined portrait of Venice that seems ever so perfect for any romantic possibilities aside from the warning imageries of death along the road. The death symbolizes that they are unwelcome to the place and that nothing of a romantic sense will occur. Even upon their return to the city he states, “We’re alright now” (Welty 400). Meaning there is a sense of discomfort towards nature and they are back to the comfort of the city. Welty displays this bizarre illustration towards the end of the story of the beautiful