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“The Golden Apples” enacts (in its form) Welty’s preoccupation with connection and ‘confluence,’ one of her favorite words. The stories are linked by the fictional setting of Morgana, a range of recurring characters, a network of mythological references and intertextual engagement with the poetry of W.B. This cycle of seven linked stories remains her most radical experiment with form and her favorite work of fiction. In 1946, Welty’s second novel, “Delta Wedding,” was published. “The Wide Net,” another story collection, appeared in 1943. Her stories began to appear in “The New Yorker” and “The Atlantic Monthly.” Her story “Lily Daw and the Three Ladies” appeared in “The Best American Stories of 1938.” Her first collection of short stories was published in 1941, entitled “A Curtain of Green.” Her first novel, “The Robber Bridegroom,” was published the following year. In 1940, she began to work with the editor Diarmuid Russell. It was at this period of her life that she took most of her photographs, some of which would be published in her two collections of photography. She returned to Mississippi where she worked as a journalist reporting on Southern life. After attending the University of Wisconsin, she went to Columbia University in New York to study advertising for one year. She grew up with her parents and two brothers and wrote from an early age. She lived in her family’s second home until her death in 2001. Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson Mississippi, where she was based for most of her life. It provides a number of contextual readings as well as biographical information about Welty.
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This essay explores “A Worn Path,” one of Eudora Welty’s most anthologized stories.