In the short passage that we are given from "one writer's beginnings" by Eudora Welty, talks about a past experience of reading and books that later had an impact on her craft as a writer of fiction. She talks about a very strict librarian and how many people in jackson grew up being afraid of her,and how welty's mother was a woman that was not afraid of her. Also how the mother would love reading and would always encourage her to read.

In the beginning it starts with her explaining how growing up in Jackson she had a librarian named Mrs. Calloway. She would state that "i never knew anyone who'd grown up in jackson without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway." She later gives an exaggerated feature for Mrs. Calloway, ”her dragon eye on the front