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A 5 page paper showing how lack of interpersonal communication is a common theme in Welty's short stories. The paper particularly looks at the stories Death of a Traveling Salesman, A Worn Path, Why I Live at the P.O., and The Hitch-hikers. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_Welty2.doc
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inability of people to communicate with one another on even the most basic level. In stories such as "Death of a Traveling Salesman," "A Worn Path," "Why I Live at
the P.O.," and "The Hitch-hikers," Weltys characters wander through a surreal landscape, interacting with people who do not understand them, and often, failing to understand themselves. In "Death of a
Traveling Salesman," for example, the salesman who is the protagonist of the tale is recovering from a bad bout of influenza that has damaged his heart. We can read into
this that his heart is not in his work, or that his heart is in some way broken. Certainly it is empty and seeking to be filled. He is back
on the road before he is fully recovered, and throughout the tale his heart seems to be lurching and clutching, trying to speak. But hearts do not speak, and even
if they do, other people do not hear them; for this we need words, and the lonely and alienated salesman has no words for what is wrong with him. His
car inexplicably falls into a ravine, and he goes to the nearest farmhouse for help. The woman there assures him that "Sonny" will help him; he assumes Sonny is her
son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the woman is pregnant with Sonnys
child. The farm wife is dowdy, frumpy, and prematurely aged -- no one that the more cosmopolitan salesman would find attractive -- but he recognizes that within her there is
life as well as the evidence of having been loved. Within him there is nothing. He sleeps overnight at their house and leaves in the morning, alone as always; he
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