Resumen de Community and morals in Tim Gautreaux's "Weding with children"
Tim Gautreaux (Morgan City, Louisiana, 1947) exemplifies with Welding with Children the unearthing of the southern short story writing. In his stories, the author plays the same mouth-piece role Faulkner had played before. Written with warmth, humor and irony his tales deal with a traditional, close, rural and mostly Christian community of Louisiana in the unstoppable process of being modernized.
Gautreaux's writing must be understood as a whole presenting Louisiana as the linking element, as a global and higher place, to all the writer's stories. In addition, the author mingles the literary resources of the great regionalists with a thorough study of the human soul. It is in this sense that, his narrative is presented as the humanist look of a writer into the everyday matters of his fellow Cajun citizens.
His characters, ordinary and working, people have to face extraordinary situations influenced by their personal code of ethics. Filled with meaning and values, sin and redemption, Welding with Children is focused on commitment and responsibility, which somehow reminds of Flannery O'Connor's literature.