Dialect and Dramatic Monologue from Curtain of GreenEudora Welty is not only a brilliant writer, she is a brilliant and gifted storyteller. A product of the South's rich oral tradition, Welty considers the richness of local speech to be one of the greatest gifts his heritage can offer (Vande Kieft 9). Southern speech is characterized by speaking, listening, and remembering. Welty, a great listener, based many of her stories on fragments of dialogue heard in her daily life. However, Welty makes the most of the South's propensity to talk. His stories are rich in dialect and often take the form of dramatic monologues, as in "Why I Live in the PO" and "The Petrified Man". Southern discourse is primarily narrative and frequently takes the form of stories, folk tales and local legends. This is true in Welty's writings, in which we find not a simple conversation, but the telling of a story. Often in Welty, the story is not told through the narrator, but rather through the characters (53). It is through this structure that the dramatic monologue appears. In Welty's "Why I Live in PO", the postmistress of China Grove, referred to only as "Sister", is systematically alienated from her family following a fight with her sister, Stella-Rondo, whom she accuses for stealing and running away. with her boyfriend, Mr. Whitaker. As the two sisters compete for family support, one by one the family members side with Stella-Rondo, and the sister states her case to the reader. “Stella-Rondo had done nothing but turn on me from upstairs while I stood there helpless in front of the hot stove,” my sister fumes. "So this placed Mom, Dad-Dad, and the baby on Stella-Rondo's side (Welty 102). Welty, a true master of language, never received any form of formal education in the field of writing She was educated through her environment, through listening and memorization. Welty's use of Southern vernacular is also an important element in every story she writes. that it is almost impossible to read one of Eudora Welty's stories without hearing it also very characteristic of the way the language is actually spoken. These are the qualities of speech that come through in his and Welty's writing. lend its poetic richness Although Welty frequently uses dialectical spelling and pronunciation, it is through rhythm, idioms, and specified pronunciation vocabulary that she is able to bring Southern speech to life (Brooks. 416).