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What are the notable or striking details, for you, and why? What sort of settings does Phoenix pass through, what encounters does she have, and what do things look like? In other words, tell me about Welty’s use of description in this piece.

Day and night. Light and darkness, Good and evil. The protagonist in this story leaves one setting, Salem Village, which seems to represent good, order, white European civilization, Christianity, and so on, and goes into the Wilderness, representing the exact opposite: evil, chaos, anarchy, “a devilish Indian behind every tree” and…. Wait. That’s actually the […]