Abstract
This chapter explains Yves Vadé’s Merlin principle to analyze desire and feminine sexuality in The Golden Apples, primarily with “A Whole World Knows” and painting and “Sir Rabbit” and sculptures. In “A Whole World Knows” Welty uses older texts—“Lord Randall,” Alice in Wonderland, The Great Gatsby—and paintings by Ernst and Mondrian to write of the fascination with death. Beyond acknowledged parallels with Yeats’ “Leda and the Swan,” the analysis of “Sir Rabbit” shows the significance of the Leda sculptures by Maillol and Brancusi to understand Welty’s experiments regarding narrative techniques to explore sex, death, and creation. The ambiguity between realism and the surrealistic dream world throughout the seven stories suggests reading The Golden Apples as a series of experiments in narration.
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