Culture and Influence of the South in Petrified Man by Eudora Welty Ess

Culture and Influence of the South in Petrified Man by Eudora WeltyWhen I think of the south, I think of southern hospitality. I visualise people always talking to each other, whether it?s just mild talk or gossip, which is the case in The Petrified Man. The dialogue itself appears to be delightful accurate (from what I can imagine anyway, since I?ve never been tear down south). The south definitely has a certain way of talking and Eudora Welty does a great job showing us, not just telling us, this dialect. From the truly first sentence of the story, you know where you are, and the type of people involved in the story. ?Reach in my purse and git me a cigarette without no powder in it if you kin, Mrs. Fletcher, honey ? I don?t give care no perfumed cigarettes.?As for the events themselves, they appear to be reasonably honest. If you book yourself to just listen to the story as it?s being told, kind of of trying to analyze it?s validity (it is fiction after all) you res ult believe you?re sitting in Leota?s beauty living room with Mrs. Fletcher and Leota talking about anything or anybody. I...