Livvie

Livvie “Livvie”, A Celebration of life Eudora Welty’s “Livvie”, is a great story on how life should be celebrated. The story is about a young woman , who marries and old man, that in a since imprisons her. The young girl gets a second chance at life when a younger man (someone her own age) enters her life and the older man is about to die. The theme Welty is trying to get across is live life to the fullest. Welty shows the theme through the character, setting, and symbols. Characters played a big role in the story. First, Solomon who is the husband of young woman. His name kind of explains what type of man he is going to be in the story. Solomon was the king of Israel and in the story Welty provides information that Solomon is playing a king type role. Welty says Solomon had a bed “like a throne” livvie, life, story, welty, solomon, man, cash, young, one, live, easter, about, year, time, theme, shows, great, control, come, woman, way, trees, second, means, look, let, know, go, girl, evil, bottle, away, world, wife, welty’s, watt