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In A Curtain of Green all of a remarkable writer's modes surface, along with their natural references. Welty, in the golden middle, tells us how things were in her time and place, or recreates the time before, the division not always being certain, since in her work human nature in general is at all times present and accountable. The younger writers would be touched by more personal psychologies, religious or sexual, which made them conscious eccentrics. Of those who responded, Faulkner would most express the good-and-evil, the white hierarchies and the self-hatreds. Supremely, it had a guilt and a defense, a double population and a tragic irony. This it could do, in a common speech spring-fed by both poetry and pawkiness, and from a literary tradition as wide as New England's, if more openly gothic. Once a founder of the nation, the South now felt alien within it, and must speak for itself. The South was more than a region it was now an enclosure. That Southern renaissance which would be a dominant force in American writing - and conspicuously so in the short story - had well begun. Allen Tate and other poets and critics had expresed themselves as southern "agrarians." Flannery O'Connor, Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers were emerging, or shortly to come.
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Faulkner, another Mississippian, had already written four of his major works. WHEN EUDORA Welty's A Curtain of Green and Other Stories appeared in 1941, Katherine Anne Porter wrote an introduction, as Welty herself notes in this collection of all her stories.