Worn path

WORN PATH         Eudora Welty brings the story, A Worn Path, to bread and butter by the use of the character Phoenix Jackson and symbols. This story heads an elderly pitch blackness womans expedition to town, on a mission of love. Phoenix Jackson, an elderly Negro women is frail, old, and had many handicaps, she lived during trying times, because of her race, and faced many challenges fleck ontogeny up.

        The story is based on an elderly Negro womens voyage into town to get medicine for her sick grandson. on the way she encounters physical challenges, obstacles and encounters danger. She climbed hills, crossed streams, crawled under barbed-wire fences, she faced dangers while out in the wilderness and a hunter who threatens her life with a gun. Phoenixs ability to make the journey and overcome these challenges shows the dedication, devotion and the will power to endure bereavement to finish her proletariat. She made this journey weekly almost exchangeable a ritual. Miss Eudora Welty often takes ritual action rattling seriously-especially the most simple and primitive rituals of home, or private unrivalled that comes from repeated performance of an action of love,(Old Phoenixs down the worn Path).



(Vande Kieft 70)                                                                                                            2 I believe the conflicts were endow in the story to show us the inner whimsey of Phoenix. She was able to endure hardships and stay focused on the task at hand. This tells us while she was growing up she over came many obstacles. Usually Welty reserved for her black characters the functions of this vital, sure and faithful, ways of living of which modern man has either lost or denied. Phoenix Jackson represents the condition of the human race earlier enfeebling layers of civilization anesthetized it. Although primitive, Phoenix is centered in and directed...

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