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The Connection. Eudora Welty’s first book “A Curtain of Green” is a book of some of her collected short stories (Overview). The uniqueness of this book is that all of the stories in the book are linked through having a character or characters needs and wants brought out. All of the plots revolve around a characters relationship with another or a character’s conflict. Welty tends to use marriage in her stories in “A Curtain of Green”, to show the characters feelings or wants (Tutorial session). The stories in “A Curtain of Green” are also related through the fact that the titles all symbolize the conflict. Eudora didn’t just randomly pick short stories for her first book she put the stories together to show organization and character insight. Two good examples of the plot revolving around two characters feelings for each other through marriage are “ A Piece of News”, and “The Whistle”. In “A Piece of News” the two main characters are Ruby and Clyde Fisher. The conflict in this story is in the words of an article in the newspaper. The article read, “Mrs. Ruby Fisher had the misfortune to be shot in the leg by her husband this week” (Welty, P. 23, L. 18). Well, this Ruby Fisher knew she h