How Setting in “A Worn Path” Shows the Character of Phoenix Jackson The writer Eudora Welty wrote the narrative “A Worn Path” about great determination and strength that one woman has to achieve in the despite times of 1941. The author tells of a cold day in December, her main character Phoenix Jackson is traveling on a path that she has traveled many times. She is on a quest to get medicine for, to the best she can recall, her grandson. Because of her lack of memory about the reason for the long trip, the author lets the reader know that she is very forgetful in her old age. Her eyesight has failed. With aged eyes and a poor, feeble body, she struggles with many battles along the way wearing her tattered clothing and carrying her cane, made out of an umbrella, that she uses as a guide. Although the path has many hindrances, she continues on her journey with great imagination, determination, and commitment.
Details of her journey show that her imagination is overpowering. She says, “Keep out from under these feet, little bob-whites” (288) and she speaks of wild hogs. The author really leads the reader to …show more content…
“I in the thorny bush,” she said. “Thorns, you doing your appointed work. Never want to let folks pass, no sir. Old eyes thought you was a pretty green bush” (289). This describes one of the distractions along the path and sheds light on her physical condition. The author saves the climax for when the reader finds out about the boy drinking lye at the end of the story. This is to allow time to draw one into Phoenix’s character and her willpower to do what she needs to do. Is the journey just a repeat of what she knows and rehearses to do over the years? Either way, she is determined to make the journey. Her taking the money that she gathers and buying the boy a little windmill that sells, made out of paper is sure to convenience the reader of her determination to this boy’s happiness and
Details of her journey show that her imagination is overpowering. She says, “Keep out from under these feet, little bob-whites” (288) and she speaks of wild hogs. The author really leads the reader to …show more content…
“I in the thorny bush,” she said. “Thorns, you doing your appointed work. Never want to let folks pass, no sir. Old eyes thought you was a pretty green bush” (289). This describes one of the distractions along the path and sheds light on her physical condition. The author saves the climax for when the reader finds out about the boy drinking lye at the end of the story. This is to allow time to draw one into Phoenix’s character and her willpower to do what she needs to do. Is the journey just a repeat of what she knows and rehearses to do over the years? Either way, she is determined to make the journey. Her taking the money that she gathers and buying the boy a little windmill that sells, made out of paper is sure to convenience the reader of her determination to this boy’s happiness and