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n the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (whose stories almost always are set in New England) are said to treat of universal themes (Allen 37). Allen, who says Welty is "no more or less" regionalist than Faulkner or Philip Roth, continues:

Being accused of mere regionalism is the price Welty has had to pay for the exquisite skill with which she so frequently has caught the essence of the South: its beauty and ugliness, its cha

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