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    long and strenuous journey of an old woman fighting to bring medicine to her sick grandson. In the story, Eudora Welty uses symbolism, color, and theme in “A Worn Path” to show the allegory of the “Flight of the Phoenix”, in the life of Phoenix Jackson. First, Eudora Welty uses symbolism to relate Phoenix Jackson to the mythological tale of the “Flight of the Phoenix”. In the story, Welty says “She walked slowly in the dark pine shadows, moving slowly a little from side to side in her steps,…

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    In recent decades, a great deal of scholarship has emerged regarding the topic of mythological and fairy tale appropriation in Eudora Welty’s various works, especially in her short story collection The Golden Apples. Secondary to her utilization of myth and fairy tale is the accompanying gender role reversal evident in her re-structuration and characterization of the traditional tales that she chooses to interpret. However, the fact that scholars like Rebecca Mark, Joseph Millichap, and Lauren…

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    The definition of the mythical phoenix bird is often described with resurrection, victory over adversity, and that which rises out of the ashes to be born again (Welty 467). In Eudora Welty’s A Worn Path, Phoenix Jackson is a force to be reckoned with and carries such dire determination to succeed. Phoenix is on a long, exhausting journey to town to retrieve some medicine for her ailing grandson, however along the way she is faced with obstacles that try to prevent her from reaching her goal.…

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    Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” is a short story about an old woman, Phoenix Jackson, going on a heroic journey to save her grandson’s life. Welty uses symbolism to develop the theme of family love Phoenix shows to her grandson. This Mississippi writer uses object, life, and christian symbols to backup the theme of love. Eudora Welty uses object symbols to support the theme of love. The first object symbol uses is life saving medicine. Phoenix’s grandson swallows lye in which makes it difficult to…

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    Eudora Welty crafts a short story centered on an old, African American woman, Phoenix, journeying to a destination far from her home. Phoenix embodies all the essential qualities of a successful journeyer, such as perseverance, endurance, craftiness, and courage. Through her journey, Phoenix is tested many times, and she always answers with resilience and confidence. Phoenix is a character that crosses instances of death many times, but instead of being afraid, she welcomes the challenges. It is…

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    particular, Eudora Welty, uses the theme of tribulation in her stories and ends with some sort of optimism. In Veronica Makowsky’s biography of Eudora Welty’s life titled Welty, Eudora 1909—published in 1998 in New York, she explains the root of Welt’s writing in one sentence. Makowsky claims, “As her views of the human capacity for imaginative and compassionate growth indicate, Welty’s attitude toward experience is ultimately optimistic and comic” (Makowsky). One prime example…

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    “Keep the big wild hogs out of my path. Don’t let none of those come running my direction. I got a long way.” (Welty, 2013, p.22). In Eudora Welty’s 1941 short fiction “A Worn Path,” the audience is introduced to an elderly woman called Old Phoenix. Phoenix faces a path that she has traveled many times to obtain some medicine for her grandson’s health. However, Phoenix comes across many obstacles and social forces that make her journey strenuous. Although, she always makes her way through the…

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    A “Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a strong regional and ethically expressed story written from the perspective of a senile elderly woman named Phoenix Jackson. Ms. Jackson undertakes a journey every year around Christmas to the city of Natchez in order to attain medicine from the doctors to help heal her grandsons inflamed throat. Though she undertakes this journey in the hope of helping cure her grandson’s condition it becomes clear through the text that her grandson has died and she is still…

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    In our world things are not always fair as they should be, but when some people have that determination absolutely nothing can completely stop them from accomplishing their goals. In the story of a Worn path by Eudora Welty, three themes that stood out were, love, racism and dedication. The main character was Phoenix Jackson. The story was set in December in 1940’s southwestern Mississippi. The first theme love is the most important theme of all, for this is the reason this old…

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    “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a story that tells us about Phoenix, an elderly woman who undertakes an arduous journey to the city in search of her grandson's throat medicine. She is a determined and resilient woman who despite her age unwaveringly battles many obstacles to find her grandson's throat medicine. Symbolism is one of the most prominent stylistic devices that the author has skillfully used to explain certain phenomena in the story. Various symbols have been used in the text which…

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