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Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer. Search for:. Manage subscription. Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Short, but rather difficult story to read. I actually didn't read it myself, instead I listened to Joyce Carol Oates read it on the New Yorker fiction podcast, and she does a good job at it.
Eudora Welty manages to express the hate that was behind a real murder committed in the s quite well. I'll go as far as to say it is interesting story, and a forceful depiction of the situation, but I can't exactly say that I liked it. My problem may simply be the fact that she does such a good job at ex Short, but rather difficult story to read. My problem may simply be the fact that she does such a good job at expressing hate, that it becomes very difficult to swallow.
But the thing is, this is of course a real issue that sometimes seems unsolvable, and Welty expresses that situation very well. Mar 30, Marco rated it liked it Shelves: reads , classics , historical , for-college , in-english.
Read for college. This story, inspired by real life events, shows, in an obviously upsetting way, racial hatred and its extreme consequences. Jul 26, Steve Sanders rated it really liked it. A story about racism and the nature of evil. Not an easy read. Jul 30, Nazish rated it really liked it Shelves: quick-reads.
A first person racial slur about a successful assassination of a black NAACP leader by a white Southern which is sure to scare the bejesus out of a reader or leaves one utterly disgusted!
This is much like an improvised version of a bloodhound Samuel L. Jackson and his much oppressed but civilized Django. View 2 comments. Jun 02, Shani Greene-Dowdell rated it it was amazing. Recently, my English professor asked the class if the usage of the N-word was appropriate from Eudora, a white author with Mississippi roots. Aug 06, Emily Rosewater rated it it was ok. Feb 16, Phil Syphe rated it it was ok. Had to read this a part of my MA degree.
Thought it lacked depth and it failed to engage me. Glad it's so short. Jul 20, Leon Gray rated it it was amazing Shelves: good-read-project-my-choice.
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