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Eudora Welty’s A Worn Path is a short story about a very old African-American woman who courageously goes the distance in unyielding circumstances. In the 1940s, in Mississippi, Phoenix Jackson walks all alone to Natchez for half a day in December to reach the medical clinic. At the clinic she receives medicine for her grandson, who swallowed lye several years ago. She makes this trip twice a year. Phoenix has made this journey so many time that her path to Natchez is like a worn path. "Seem like there

In “A Worn Path”, Phoenix Jackson shows many characteristics. She is cunning, consistent, selfless, and forgetful at times. Devoted to saving her grandson at all costs, she goes above and beyond to do so. She will do anything for him, even if that means putting her life in danger. Phoenix is very cunning and intelligent. As she distracts the hunter by telling the dog to sic another dog, she steals a nickel from the ground. She says "God watching me the whole time. I come to stealing." This shows

In "A Worn Path", Eudora Wetly uses the setting to drive the story. The setting of "A Worn Path" is specifically in a southern town during the nineteen hundreds. This place and time in history affects the terminology used in the story, along with the actions of the characters and in Phoenix Jackson’s case, their intellect. Wetly also uses the natural geography of the path Jackson follows as the story’s closest comparisons to an antagonist. The terms Wetly uses in “A Worn Path” are based on how things

In the short story “A Worn Path” Phoenix is an old woman who travels on a path everyday to get medicine for her grandson. Most people believe that her grandson is dead and he most likely is because he drank lye, which can kill you slowly or instantly (depending on how much he drank). Phoenix still believes that her grandson is still sick and she travels a long path to get the medicine from the hospital, which makes her very committed.For example, Phoenix states “Out of my way,all you foxes,owls,beetles

upon Phenox Jackson as she journeys from her serene home in the countryside to the city for her grandson’s medicine. She encounters dangers that many people would flee from, yet she stands her ground and continues on her path. Through these dangers, Eudora Welty, author of A Worn Path, uses direct and indirect characterization through Phoenix Jackson’s description and actions. Welty paints a picture by Jackson’s characterizations that show how she is capable of withstanding obstacles and is tenacious

The Purpose of Phoenix Jackson’s Name in Welty’s “A Worn Path” (Eudora Welty’s Purpose of Naming the Main Character in “A Worn Path” Phoenix”) In Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path,” the main character’s name is Phoenix Jackson. The significance of her first name is found in a deeper meaning that is not directly addressed in the story. A phoenix is a mythological bird that bursts into flames when it dies, but is reborn from its own ashes. Making this connection to Welty’s story, one could say that Phoenix

Though the Phoenix is old and frail she takes a journey to get her grandson’s medicine. During her walk, she encounters her first trial by having to cross a bridge that is only made up of one single log to cross a river. She then says, “Now comes the trial” (Welty 1940) then she closed her eyes and negotiates that obstacle impressing herself by doing so. The next obstacle she is faced with is when she fell in the ditch after hitting a black dog with her stick. Phoenix then scolded herself for putting

In “A Worn Path,” by Eudora Welty tells the story of a trip of an old physically fragile black woman who is living during the 1940s, named Phoenix Jackson. As she walks to her destination, she suffers from extreme fatigue and eyesight, along with other difficulties such as barbed wire and thorn bushes. Phoenix faces many challenges throughout her journey but still manages to make it to her destination. This can also be referred to life. As sometimes we face many trials and tribulations but we always

Deep-Grained Love “A Worn Path” “’Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animals! Keep the big wild hogs out of my path. Don’t let none of those come running my direction. I got a long way’” (92) English Literature, Robert Diyanni. A Worn Path is an eloquent story, written in third person narration with colorful language that draws the reader deeper into the plot and the setting of the story. Throughout the story, the word old appears more than twenty times.

different observations and mindsets to overcome obstacles this life throws at you. Eudora Welty and Robert Frost display this in their own unique ways wile portraying meaning in some similar and some very different ways, when writing Welty’s “A Worn Path” and Frost’s “Stopping by woods on a snowy evening”. Anyone can tell you that different authors will approach similar plots in different ways, and that there are multiple lessons to learn from any story or poem. To say that themes and lessons overlap