Why I Live at the P.O - Again

“Why I Live at the P.O” by Eudora Welty tells a funny story about family life in a small town using each other for amusement. The family is at constant odds with one another, but things really seem to fall apart when Sister’s younger sister, Stella-Rondo returns home, “I was getting along fine with Mama, Papa-Daddy, and Uncle Rondo until my sister Stella-Rondo just separated from her husband and came back home again”(Welty 107) Sister states. But I am not convinced that it was the coming home of Stella-Rondo that prompts the problems in the household. Because of her anger and resentment towards the various members of her family, Sister is not a reliable narrator for the story. Therefore, her account of what happened on the 4th and 5th of July is not to be believed.
As the day progresses, so does the rivalry between Sister and Stella-Rondo. The two sisters go back and forth with each other in a game of who said what about whom. Each is fumed by the desire to be the cent...