Eudora Welty "The Little Store"

Seeing 1.

I believe miss Welty is using chronological description to organize her reminiscences of running errands to the local grocery store. She encounters where her adventure started, how it proceeded until she reached her destination, what happened there, and finally what was happening on the way back. As well she mentioned that everything started when the sun was up and ended when the day was coming to the end and it was dark. 

I suggest that the author describes all these games she played as a child as an important part of her childhood, but as important as they might be, nothing will compare with the adventure to the store. She recalls quite interesting and amusing games as jumping rope, riding bicycle, dragging her steamboat,  catching lightning bugs, making parade on a singe velocipede etc etc, but as exciting as all these can be for a child, nothing will compare to the adventure to the local grocery store. That is why she recalls them: in order to point out their meaningless in comparison with her little voyage. 

It was interesting, but I noticed her using five senses before I even read the question. She was using our hearing, while mentioning the particular parts from the songs. We could sing them in our head, and could be discovering the rhymes from one line to the other (know-oh/Tickle-toe; Lindsey/influinzy). As well she used sight as her mentioning of the details were so descriptive that it was letting us to draw a picture of the elements in our imagination and see it in front of our eyes. She used taste and smell as she described the Lake's Celery (It was made by Mr. Lake out of celery). And each of us could taste celery in their mouth or smell its little grassy flavor. I felt using of the senses really enriched the story and gave it visual effect.

Eudora Welty used recollection of her childhood memories as a grown woman and as a person becoming a renowned writer. She was recollecting on the things that influenced her and shaped in that particular way. Specific evidence of her childhood perspective? Games and songs, creating silly rhymes, child's hand invited for a choice of candies, importance of the nickel...

The story was interesting and easy to read and I really enjoyed it.