'Thank Goodness the Goose Is Here': Creativity and Women's Writing in Eudora Welty's 'The Shoe Bird.'

Suggests that "The Shoe Bird" uses animal characters to explore women's authorship. Locates in Gloria, one of the main characters, evidence of the creativity and fortitude required to write as a woman in cultures where written language has conventionally been seen as the domain of men. (SG)