Life Lesson

Life Lesson Eudora Welty’s story “The Little Store” illustrates how a single, unexpected event changed what seemed a perfect life in perfect surroundings. Most wish for a peaceful childhood, as Eudora had in Jackson, Mississippi: a little house, a little porch, back and front yards, mother in the kitchen cooking all day, and children on the street ready to play. Such life appears to be heavenly for a few moments, until it is changed …

…environment where everything was certain: children playing, mother cooking her favorite meal, freely running to “The Little Store” for candy, the Monkey man was walking around…Until one day one thing, only one, changed: “The Little Store” was forever closed. With this closure she opened a new world of adulthood that a child is never ready to bare on its own, but often is forced to do it regardless, as was the case with Eudora.