A study guide for eudora weltys the optimists daughter. Im wondering whether fay will be the conduit for that learning. The optimist s daughter is the story of laurel mckelva hand, a young woman who has left the south and returns, years later, to new orleans, where her father is dying. She was educated locally and at mississippi state college for women, the university of wisconsin. Part ilaurel seems like shes got a lot to learn about her father and perhaps mother. The contentious relationship that exists right now seems. The optimists daughter is a compact and inwardlooking little novel, a pulitzer prize winner thats slight of page yet big of heart. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to. The optimist in question is 71yearold judge mckelva, who has come to a new orleans hospital from mount salus, mississippi, complaining of a disturbance in his vision.
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