The Dynamics of Identity and Community in Eudora Welty’s Delta wedding

Abstract

   This paper explores Eudora Welty’s novel Delta Wedding through the lens of identity and community dynamics in 1920s Mississippi. Welty intricately portrays the insular world of the Fairchild family, a white aristocratic clan grappling with tradition, interpersonal relationships, and societal change. Through detailed analysis of character interactions and narrative structure, this study examines how Welty navigates themes of class distinctions, racial tensions, and familial obligations within the closed community of the Delta region. This analysis underscores Welty’s profound insight into Southern society’s complexities and contradictions amidst historical transformations, highlighting the enduring legacies of the past on personal and communal identities.

Keywords:- Identity, Community,  Traditions, closed society,  Southern, Class , Negroes , Story telling