Loss and Compensation at Shellbound

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This paper examines "Delta Wedding" by Eudora Welty, which is only nominally about a wedding, but, symbolically, it is about the fusion the wedding of a family out of the necessities brought by change. It looks at how change in "Delta Wedding" is the general context for what is lost and gained in life and how Dabney's wedding represents the changes that entail loss and gain. It evaluates how Welty's work treats loss euphemistically, almost ideally, painting it as a natural and inescapable reality.

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"Her relationship with Uncle George is crucial to the change because, in a sense, Uncle George teaches her catechism. He virtually brings her into the family and becomes something of a surrogate mother figure. Laura clings to him emotionally. "She thought of herself as growing up beside Uncle George, the way some flowers and vines have picked their tree" (Welty 75). She idolized Uncle George. "She stored love for Uncle George fiercely in he heart, she wished Shellmound would burn down and she could run in and rescue him?" (Welty 76)."

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