... referrals of being referred to as an old Negro woman also, by the mixture of short stories with a mixture of folk material and by the way she shows sympathy to the Negro woman. She, like writers as Faulkner and James Baldwin, shows the strength of the Negro woman. This strength is built around the Negro woman. "Phoenix" is not just a name for a character. Miss Welty presents her ... go to them for help. This is just an example of how her journey is much like that of the Iliad. (Wilson 223) Yet another reason for the southern influence would be the language spoken by Phoenix which sugges...

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