A Dark Rose: Love in Eudora Welty's Stories and NovelsFrom the heartbroken protagonist she depicted in her first published story, Death of a Traveling Salesman, to the reflective widow she described in her last novel, The Optimist's Daughter, Eudora Welty wrote realistically about the shadows and radiance of love. In a meticulous exploration of this theme, Sally Wolff combines new readings of Welty's fiction with contextual information and background drawn from a nineteen year friendship with Welty. A