Welty not only focuses on the faults of the Old South, but is also concerned with how modern Southerners try to break away from the past shadow, and face the changed New South.

• 韦尔蒂不仅关注南方社会的弊病，同时也关注新一代南方人是如何摆脱过去的历史阴影重新面对已经改变的新世界。