 The scene is limited to a town the author knows well; the farthest reaches of that scene never go beyond the boundaries of her own state...Dullness, bitterness, self-pity, baseness of all kinds can be most interesting material for a story provided these are not also the main elements in the mind of the author.There is nothing in the least vulgar or frustrated in Miss Welty's mind.She has simply an eye and an ear sharp, shrewd, and true as a tuning fork.