Welty begins by describing the librarian she had as a little girl. She uses words like “her dragon eye” and “commanding voice.” Welty describes her librarian as an angry and serious individual. Welty also states that her librarian didn’t allow anyone in the library “if she could see through your skirt.” This helps the reader visualize her librarian and how many people were afraid of her. Regardless of how evil and mean the librarian was, Welty’s reading was more important to her. …show more content…
She states “So two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read.” As a little girl Welty was into books and loved to read as much as she could. By describing how excited she was to read, she conveys how much she valued her books. This shows the reader that this influenced her craft as a writer because she had always valued reading.
Lastly, Eudora Welty uses descriptive language by describing how her mother loved to read as well. She writes, “Now, I think of her as reading so much of the time while doing something else.” Welty grew up watching her mother read. She describes how her mother always had a book in her hand no matter what she was doing. This shows how it impacted her writing because she saw what her mother was reading and it interested her. Parents always have an influence on their children, Welty’s mother’s reading impacted her writing.
Eudora Welty uses descriptive language to show the reader how her experiences as a little girl impacted her writing. She uses many details to describe how much she loved to read when she was a little and how she grew up watching her mother read. By describing these events with a lot of details, Welty is able to show the intensity of these memories and how it impacted her writing as an