Isolation is a very destructive thing, it can leave people depressed and with poor social skills. Many authors express isolation in their stories to show a certain point. Authors like Edora Welty, Emily Dickinson, and Edith Wharton are well known authors and very talented in the way they write. They show isolation in some of their stories. A Worn Path, The Soul selects her own Society, and Ethan Frome are just some of the writing they wrote expressing the struggle of isolation. In the short story A Worn Path by Edora Welty the main character is an older lady named Phoenix Jackson. She live in the woods alone with her alleged grandson. Throughout the story she is walking to town by herself and she faces many issues. She began’s to hallucinate
