Title
To the Trees: Sex and Escape in Welty's The Golden Apples
Faculty Mentor(s)
Mary Carney
Campus
Gainesville
Subject Area
English/Communications
Location
Nesbitt 3101
Start Date
25-3-2016 2:45 PM
End Date
25-3-2016 4:00 PM
Description/Abstract
While many scholars and critics have evaluated Eudora Welty’s stories through a feminist lens, including comparisons of plant imagery to female genitalia or characteristics, I intend to argue that Welty’s plant imagery in The Golden Apples transcends gender and instead represents what Michael Kreyling describes as a “call to growth, a summons to fulfillment” for the legitimate and illegitimate children, both male and female, of the story’s mysterious legendary figure, King MacLain. (Kreyling, Achievement 79).
To the Trees: Sex and Escape in Welty's The Golden Apples
Nesbitt 3101
While many scholars and critics have evaluated Eudora Welty’s stories through a feminist lens, including comparisons of plant imagery to female genitalia or characteristics, I intend to argue that Welty’s plant imagery in The Golden Apples transcends gender and instead represents what Michael Kreyling describes as a “call to growth, a summons to fulfillment” for the legitimate and illegitimate children, both male and female, of the story’s mysterious legendary figure, King MacLain. (Kreyling, Achievement 79).