I should have known better.

After taking a class on Welty, Woolf, and O'Connor in college, I knew Welty was my least favorite author of the three. I had bought this book for the class, though, and having only had to read a handful of the stories in it, determined that I would finish it someday.

I never understood the appeal, though. Her writing voice is annoying, her characters are all maimed (either physically or mentally), and her plots are mostly boring. Maybe I'm just too Yankee to appreciate her (or maybe I'm just not as easily amused by cripples or albinos).