Favoritism The story I chose to analyze is “Why I Live at the PO” by Eudora Welty. The author, Eudora Wetly, is a Mississippi native from a wealthy family, born in 1909 and died in 2001. During her early days she worked in small places involved in writing until she launched her literary career. “Why I Live at PO” is about sibling rivalry and favoritism within the family. My thesis states that this story shows a good example of favoritism among families and good insights on the part of the marginalized. My first impression of Eudora is that she is a wealthy person with a good background and a great education. Through this he had the ability to acquire good literary knowledge. She had attended university but, upon returning home, did not begin her literary career until years later, after several careers in minor jobs. However, one of the problems I found in his work is that his small-town life is conceived as a universal reality. Even though popular media would say it's the same thing, anyone from a small town would tell you otherwise. It's always easy to understand that his work shows a general idea about small towns and their families, including how siblings think and families react to certain things. Upon first reading the story, which was full of satire, it seems Welty is a jealous and spoiled older sister who thinks a lot of herself and not at all of her sister. The way he points out little things like the hat his sister is wearing starts to show how he focuses on appearances could also symbolize the fact that his sister always gets nice things and doesn't appreciate them, another example of how she has taken to Mr. Whitaker from Wetly. Once you delve deeper into the story, you find that many of him…middle of the paper…she did the right thing. Personal experience has shown me that it is better to be happy, alone and content with a choice, rather than continue to live with extreme prejudice, ignorance and naivety. In the end, no matter how hard you try, or how perfect you think you are, or beautiful, or smart, or rich, if you are not happy with yourself and your life, nothing will change until you find the courage to initiate change. .Works CitedPerlman, Helen Harris. "A note about brother." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 37.1 (1967): 148-149. PsycARTICLES. Network. February 17, 2014Watanabe-Hammond, S. (1988). Projects from the past: a character work perspective on siblings and personality formation. In K.G.Lewis (Ed.), Siblings in therapy: Lifespan and clinical issues New York: Norton.Wetly, Eudora. Because I live at the PO. New Jersey: Pearson, 2014. 431-439. Press.