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An 8 page research paper that analyzes Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridegroom in terms of how this novel demonstrates the characteristics of Southern literature. Page count includes a 1-page outline. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Southern fiction tends to share certain characteristics that define this genre as a whole. As pointed out by Young, Watkins and Beatty, "Miss Weltys fiction portrays lonely, sensitive characters with
sympathy and humor against a detailed backdrop of family, community, tradition and place" (884). The same could be said of many Southern writers. The following examination of Eudora Weltys The
Robber Bridegroom demonstrates that this novel encompasses the features that define Southern writing as a whole. Experience of defeat Southerners are the only Americans to be defeated by a
conquering army (the Union Army) on their own soil. Furthermore, following the defeat of the South in the American Civil War, the South was subjugated to prolonged period of military
occupation. Consequently, a sense of defeat -- resignation in the face of overwhelming force --pervades a great deal of Southern fiction. This quality can be seen in Weltys The
Robber Bridegroom from the beginning of this fanciful saga, particularly when Clement Musgrove relates his life story to the enigmatic Jamie Lockhart. He describes being captured by Indians, along with
his first wife, infant children and several others. "We had to be humiliated and tortured and enjoyed, and finally, with the most precise formality, to be decreed upon" (sentenced to
death) (Welty 9). Tied to a surviving woman and his only surviving child, Musgrove is pushed into the wilderness by the Indians, who obviously intended their victims to die from
exposure. In this passage, the reader feels not only the pain and grief of Musgrove over the death of his first wife, but also his humiliation and frustration at
not being able to strike back at his oppressors. In many ways, his emotions reflect the lingering feeling of defeat that characterized the South for many years. A sense
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