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A Study Guide for Eudora Welty's "Bye-Bye Brevoort," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for Eudora Welty's "Bye-Bye Brevoort" - Gale
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Bye-Bye, Brevoort
Eudora Welty
1949
Introduction
Although the Mississippi writer Eudora Welty is well known for her many short stories, novels, essays, and photographs, as well as for her fine ear for catching the speech patterns of the South, Bye-Bye, Brevoort is her only published play. A one-act farce, the play was first performed at a summer theater in Westboro, Massachusetts, in 1949. More notably, Bye-Bye, Brevoort was included in the 1956 off-Broadway production, The Littlest Revue. The play was published for the first time by Palaemon Press for the New Stage Theatre in Jackson, Mississippi. This edition is no longer in print and difficult to obtain; however, in 1991, editor Daniel Halpern included Bye-Bye, Brevoort in his book, Plays in One Act, a readily available source.
Bye-Bye, Brevoort is the story of three elderly ladies who live in the Hotel Brevoort, an actual building in New York City that was torn down shortly after Welty wrote her play. The three women entertain a gentleman caller for tea, while wrecking balls and workers destroy the hundred-year-old Brevoort. The humor derives from the women's refusal to notice that their home is falling apart as they continue their outdated rituals. While hilarious, the play also suggests a more serious theme, the destruction of the old to make way for the new.
Author Biography
Eudora Alice Welty was born on April 13, 1909, in Jackson, Mississippi, to Chestina Andrews Welty and Christian Webb Welty. Her mother was a former schoolteacher and her father was an insurance executive. Welty's mother encouraged her daughter in all creative pursuits. Her father, an amateur photographer, also was very influential in his daughter's life. Welty was the eldest child in the family and the only daughter. The family members were great readers and placed a high value on learning. As a child, she visited the Andrew Carnegie Library daily and was allowed to take out two books per day.
Welty spent her entire childhood in Jackson. She began her college education
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