#264 Lily Daw and the Three Ladies- Eudora Welty
So far for this project, I’ve leaned more to modern, current
authors. O. Henry, Chekhov, etc. have been the exception. Eudora Welty deserves
to be on that list. So I begin with a small story about Lily Daw and the Three
Ladies.
Lily is a woman with a mental disability of some sort. She
has been taken care of by three busy body woman who may or may not have Lily’s
best interests at heart. By coincidence two rare opportunities occur for Lily
on the same day. She gets accepted into a special program for woman like
herself, and she gets proposed to by a xylophone player visiting with the big
Tent Show.
Ignoring slightly cringe-worthy stereotypes, the dialogue
heavy story telling is humorous if a bit old fashioned.
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