Perseverance In Eudora Welty's A Worn Path

“A Worn Path” is about a grandmother, named Phoenix, who needs to go into town, called Natchez, to get medicine for her grandson. The path that she has to take has many obstacles to overcome. Even with the obstacles that lie ahead of the journey, she still goes. Phoenix age is emphasized with the descriptive details that are given by the narrator. Some of the obstacles that she had to overcome are dense forest, walking over hills, wild animals, thorny bushes, barbed wire fences, and winter itself.
One of themes of the story is perseverance. Not just perseverance in continuing the path to town but the perseverance in life itself. Phoenix must endure the cold, keep her footing on the frozen ground, crawling under barbed wire fence, walk through