Although eventually abandoned as modern transportation routes were added to the region, the Trace continues to resonate as an idea of a specific region of North America. Another is that the Trace cuts a diagonal across Mississippi, which is to say across a big portion of the Deep South.
The Trace was a centuries-long trade route for Native Americans. One aspect of this has to do with topography. But the fact that Welty's characters take their personalities, mind-sets, assumptions, speech, and all the rest from the physical place they inhabit is especially important to her fiction because the place-the vicinity of the Natchez Trace, a 400-mile-odd stretch of land running generally southwest to northeast from Natchez, Mississippi, which is on the Mississippi River, to Nashville, Tennessee, and touching the Cumberland, and Tennessee rivers-itself has a personality. Settings in Eudora Welty's stories are their mise-en-scFne, the place where things happen to characters and where characters behave in thus-and-so ways.
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