Directions
This passage comes from Eudora Welty's autobiography One Writer's Beginnings. It is full of details that make the story come alive.
I never knew anyone who'd grown up in Jackson without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway, our librarian. She ran the library absolutely by herself, from the desk where she sat with her back to the books and facing the stairs, her dragon eye on the front door, where who knew what kind of person might come in from the public?