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‘The waiting arms of Missouri’: human connections and sheltered lives in Eudora...

This paper reads The Optimist’s Daughter based on the symbolic, silent, and scarce presence of Missouri, the black housekeeper of the Mckelva’s house. On the one hand, her presence in the novel is rare and subsidiary; on the other hand, her presence signals Laurel’s sheltered life and her need for human connections, showing,as Peggy Prenshaw suggests, that Welty truly believes in “the human connection between f...

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