Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3 (B), http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistics/American Studie

An elderly black woman who lives out in the country makes the long and arduous journey into town, as she has done many times in the past.

An old woman demonstrates the value of her age when she solves a warlord's three riddles and saves her village from destruction.

Collects photographs of Mississippians that Welty took in the 1930s when she worked for the Works Progress Administration.

'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written,