Understanding Memories and Traditions: A Comparative Study

mother and her husband after her mother’s death. But Eudora Welty deliberately includes a selfish character of Fay in the family to shows the important of the memories they have. Laurel discovers the significant meaning of the memories and past to her, yet she could not survive in staying fully attached to it.
Miranda, the female protagonist of Pale Horse, Pale Riders rebels her traditions and culture at the beginning of the story. Everyone looks down at her when she refuses to buy Liberty Bond because she does not believe on war. Although she is forced to serve men and injuries of the war as a women duty during the wartime in the past, her attitudes towards soldiers reveal her objection to the traditional values. “During the war, women in particular must be controlled , for with a large portion of the male absent, female independence become increasingly possible …although cututal historian have argued that the war years allowed women a wider variety of public and professional opportunities, porters stories argues otherwise (162 Titus). Miranda becomes attracted to Adam, a masculine soldier who shows his devotion to the war and traditions. He is heroic figure according to the traditional principle. Yet Miranda was able to

Such as Judge McKale, in The Optimist’s Daughter appears with the sickness and dies from the beginning of the story. Despite the fact that, the name of the character, Judge, is a reflection of high men power, yet his power is dismissed in the very beginning of the story. Similarity, with Adam and Chuck, the male characters in Pale Horse, Pale Riders, Mary Titus argues that: “Because the appropriate male behavior is now enlistment, Chuck feel publicly emasculated, for a bad lung keeps him from service” (163). Almost all the men main character dies in the both work and female struggle for creating new identity for