Status Updates From The Collected Stories of Eu...

In "Music From Spain", Eugene adopts a Spanish artist. He imagines a life for him.

In "Music From Spain" Eugene McClain hits his wife and can't forgive himself.

In "The Whole World Knows",Maideen seems to be Ran's (short for Randall) girl.

Easter (female lead character) almost drowns. The Boy Scout saves her.

"...The night was not impartial . No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others."

"Mo0n Lake" involves a boat, but nobody seems to want to go. No, plot. no conflict otherwise.

The orphans can't swim in "Moon Lake".

Something happened to Mattie Will. Sounds like rape, but the description is really vague. Welty does a lot of that.

"June Recital" is about is like 56 pages long. I like my short stories in the twenty page range. She now seems to be calling Miss Eckhart "the old woman".

Miss Eckhart's recitals.

Miss Eckhart plays the piano at the now vacant house. The vacant house is like a character in the story. This is a short story collection. "Junk Recital" is rather long.

"June Recital" is a long one. One of the main characters, Miss Eckhart, has given music lessons in the "Vacant House" in the story.

In "June Recital" Loch has a fever.

King MacLain deserts Snowdie and their children.

"At the Landing", featuring Jenny and Floyd.

"Livvie": Soloman marries Livvie who is only sixteen. He's much older. Soloman was a colored man. Nine years go by; he kept getting older, eventually giving out. She was still young. She enters into a relationship with Cash, Soloman's hired man.

"The Purple Hat": Is the woman in the purple hat a ghost?

"The Winds" is pretty much prose poetry, not making a lot of sense otherwise.

"Asphodel": Weird characters, no plot.

"Asphodel": something about Greek columns (architecture).

"A Still Moment": Murrell, the outlaw, vs. Lorenzo, man of God.