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Author Eudora Welty's Success as a Writer

Author Eudora Welty's Success as a Writer

Edward Gibbon once said in Memoirs, “My early and invincible love of reading, I would not exchange for the treasures of India.” As agreed in the passage taken from the autobiography, One Writer’s Beginnings, author Eudora Welty is introduced to myriad books as a young child, therefore arouse an enthusiasm for reading and encourages her later career as a novelist. Welty’s success as a writer is explained by her eagerness and sensitivity to literature, Mrs. Calloway’s strict domination of the library, which challenges her determination to read, and her mother’s share of passion for books that encourages her to have a personal relationship with books.

At a young age, Welty’s decision to become a novelist resulted from her urge and passion of reading infinite books from a broad spectrum of sources. Her eagerness to read must be satisfied immediately, and her fear is that of “books coming to an end.” (53) The eagerness in which Welty tries to make her reading time last longer only results in her lack of self control and she finishes reading books too soon. Since Welty’s love of reading is unable to be satisfied by the limited number of “only [two] books” (41) at a time, she dedicates her life to writing, becoming a writer who can be exposed to literature more frequently and be able to create her own inspirational masterpieces. Secondly, Welty’s desires to read books from various sources, “from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, stood for [her] devouring wish to read being instantly granted” (51). As a young child, Welty is so open to books that her mind becomes a complex web of fantasies that satisfies her imagination. This open-mindedness to different sources reveals that “Taste isn’t nearly so important” (52). Welty’s lack of judgment makes clear her focus on the excitement to explore an unknown world every time she opens a different book, rather than becoming addicted to a specific topic or field. In addition, Welty’s keenness to books makes her “impressionable” (36) to the images and meaning of a book. Welty’s tendency to fall into her surreal world, one created from her passion towards books, can be explained by comparing her to the story character Anne in Anne of Green Gables, to reenact a scene of Elaine’s death from Tennyson’s poem. However,...

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