Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding

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Delta Wedding is more than a wedding, this book shows a family struggling to accept outsiders. The author of Delta Wedding is Eudora Welty. The main characters are Laura, Troy and Robbie. Welty shows that family is important and close-knit and occasionally do not accept outsiders if the Fairchilds do not want to. The characters believe they are unique and anyone outside of this family will never have the qualities they think they are born with.
The book Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty is more than a love story. This book shows how a family is not accepting to outsiders. It can be difficult to fall in love when no one wants to accept anyone outside of the Fairchilds family. The women care most about how the family is. They want to keep the family the highest out of all other families in the Delta. If a couple loves each other enough they can make it through the comments and negativity to be able to live their lives together as a couple. Not only is this book on couples making it into the family but family not as close can become more close if they really want to be
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Acceptance in this family is a big deal from looks to last name’s. The Fairchilds family alway want to be the best in the Delta and believe they are the best. The women are the one’s who care so much about this and the men seem to not care until it came down to Dabney’s father not wanting to give her away to Troy. If a couple loves each other enough they will go through anything to be together, even if one will never be accepted. This family at the end shows a sign of starting to accept when they are sitting down together feeling content with how things are. They will eventually have to accept the fact that they can not control who comes into the family if someone is in love. There are many young kids in this family and it should be interesting to see how that all plays out with their future of love coming

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