Eudora Welty Analysis

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In the article about Eudora Welty's passion for reading, we figure out what obstacles she faced with her librarian. Through-out the entire article one person, Mrs.Calloway, is talked about heavily by how she treats people in the library. Also, by her interesting personality given off by where she works/spends most of her day at. the way that Welty describes it, is amazing. The language that is used to help describe the librarian is even more helpful. These experiences that Welty went through are incredible. "You could take out two books at a time and two only; this applied as long as you to my mother as severely to me" (Welty, lines 41-44). This experience for Welty was very difficult because by the way she told us (the readers), she loves

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