Why I Live at the PO was written by Eudora Welty in 1941. The sister, the first-person narrator, who is a flat character in the story, causes external conflicts within her family as the result of his internal conflicts. Such as a lack of self-confidence and a demanding need to be the center of attention. Due to the conflicts she faces within herself, she is forced to leave her family's home and go to the post office. At the beginning of the story the reader feels sympathy for the Sister because of the ongoing conflicts, but later in the story we begin to see that these conflicts have been perpetuated by the Sister herself. When this happens, the story becomes comical from the reader's point of view, and we lose our sympathy for Sister. Sister lives in China Grove, Mississippi, supposedly a very small town with only a few occupants. He lives with his mother, grandfather and uncle in their house, being the center of attention all the time until his younger sister, Stella-Rondo, returns home. Stella-Rondo's return immediately triggers a conflict with her sister because her sister is obviously envious of her and was even before she returned to China Grove. The reader gets clear evidence of the Sister's jealousy towards Stella-Rondo when the Sister says "She always had everything she wanted in the world and then threw it away." (594). Clearly the sister has a predisposition to Stella-Rondo's return for many reasons, and this is the beginning of the conflict she begins to have with herself. Stella-Rondo comes home with a child during dinner, and her sister feels very offended by this and shows us her arrogance and dismay at seeing that she is losing the center of attention when she says “There I am or…. .. middle of paper ...... marking time, in the hope that a member of her family will come to the post office and beg for her return as she states in: "What if Stella-Rondo should come to me in this moment, on my knees, and trying to explain the incidents of his life… I just put my fingers in both ears and refuse to listen.”(602). It is clear to the reader that the Sister hopes that Stella-Rondo will come get her in hopes of giving her the attention she craves. Throughout the story, it was the Sister who tried to persuade the reader to take her side in the debacle with her family. The truth is that it was Sister who caused all the dispute that is happening with her obsession to compete with her sister which dates back to her childhood when she felt that Stella-Rondo is spoiled and continues to be spoiled until the end after Sister's death . desperate need for attention.