Seeing 1
Welty uses a very loose structure, one like that of a child. She recounts running to the little store for her mother whenever she needed someone to run errands. The way she reminisces about making the journey is childlike in nature, the reader can feel the excitement she is experiencing when she tells the story. She also abruptly goes off on different tangents, recalling conversations and a few songs from her childhood. She appeals to the reader's since of touch, smell, sight, and hearing, trying to get them to experience the same thing she is when she revisits her past. This reinforces her childlike approach, causing the viewer to see through the eyes of her younger self. This is evident by the way she describes the shelves, food, and especially the toys.
Seeing 2
The storekeeper appears very neutral in this photograph. His face is not expressing any particular raw emotion, although he does seem content. He is in the center of the picture with a shadow cast across the left side of his face. The items around him are brought to the viewer's attention by the lighting. There are bananas hanging from the top right corner. a photograph of a girl dancing in the top left of center, and a telephone hanging on the wall. There are no customers or other employees. I think this is because she wanted to portray the store owner as the sole proprietor of the little store, the one who cared about it the most.
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