THE LITTLE STORE

The little store written by Eudora Welty is a very interesting story of a special little store that she has a lot of love and fascination for and how she enjoys taking a trip to the store always whenever she was sent by the mother to buy groceries. It was through her mother’s request that she got to know the store since the mother requests for groceries. She found the place as a centre of amusement and adventurous. It was a good time for her to play games as she makes her way o the store. On page 155 of the story, she quotes, “I’d skipped my jumping rope up and down it, hopped its length through mazes of hopscotch, played jacks in its islands of shade, serpentined along it on my Princess bicycle, skated it backward and forward.” This shows how much fun she has on the way to the little store. Because of the fun that she has on the way, she does not hesitate whenever the mother wants someone to go to the store to get groceries. As shown on page 155 again, the mother asks, “Quick! Who’d like to run to the Little Store for me”? Then she would immediately respond “I would.” With pure joy because she knows what she was about to enjoy.
As the narration goes on, the author also gives insight on the things she likes about the store itself the things that go on in there. She also gives out what she experiences when she finds herself at the little store. In this part there are more descriptions mad on here. She describes how the building of the little store first looks from the outside as she says “It was a plain frame building covered over with brick.” On page 156 of the story she explains about the perception of smells she experiences while she enters the store. She quotes, “There were almost tangible smells- licorice recently sucked in a child’s cheek, dill-pickle brine that had leaked through a paper sack in a fresh trail across the wooden floor.” She explains it in that way to give a clear idea that these smells al around depicts an old store.
The author’s story about the little store was narrated in a form of a story of a child or how it would be seen from a child’s point of view. On page 156 she even came out with a funny poem that her parents didn’t even understood her but she understood it from the perception she had about the little store. In the poem it quotes “there was a little boy and his name was Lindsey. He went to heaven with the influinzy.” It may sound weird to others but to her it meant a lot and she enjoyed it since it related to the little store where she finds a lot of fun for herself.