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If the story, A Worn Path, would have continued, it would tell about her travel back home. Before the story ended, Phoenix Jackson was heading home to give her grandson his medicine. To continue the story, when Phoenix Jackson got back home, she sets the windmill, that she had got at the store with the ten cents that she had acquired on her journey to retrieve he medicine, down on a little table that was sitting beside her grandson, who hadn’t moved from the position that she had last seen him.…

An Alternate View In his article, “Life and Death in Eudora Welty’s ‘A Worn Path,’” Roland Bartel pleads for readers to view “A Worn Path” as more than a story of the hardships an elderly African American woman faces. Bartel believes there is more to the story than what appears on the surface. He indulges the idea that Phoenix Jackson’s grandson is not sick, but dead, and that she makes the journey to keep her mind at ease. This view that Bartel possesses creates a whole other side to the…

Phoenix is the main character, and protagonist of Eudora Welty’s short story “A Worn Path”, Written in 1941. Throughout the story, we follow Phoenix on a long journey that she is taking through the woods, for which we are at first given no origin point or destination. On her journey, we see Phoenix display a memory both with incredible ability, and with faults of old age. We also see her encounter and overcome many obstacles set by both her environment, and her poor eyesight, a symptom of old…

Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” tells the story of Phoenix Jackson, an elderly African Woman leaving in the south who takes on a journey into town in order to get medicine for her grandson. To many, the story of Phoenix’s journey seems to be a short, simple story with no exciting action taking place, and although that is true, the story itself exhibit the struggle faced by many African American back in the early 20th century and even today in the 21st century, the struggle of racism. Racism is not…

The Quests in “Araby” and “A Worn Path” In the two short stories “Araby,” by James Joyce, published in 1914, and “A Worn Path,” by Eudora Welty, published in 1973, both stories view life as a journey. Both protagonists, Phoenix Jackson, the main character in “A Worn Path,” and the Narrator in “Araby” embark on an errand out of love. In “Araby,” the Narrator develops an infatuation for Mangan’s sister, who for the longest period does not notice him. He laments, “I had never spoken to her, except…

quest to find their personal call, could be on a journey with many obstacles in their path, or could be on a quest to find a type of treasure. There are many important characteristics that these individuals possess on their quests, such as motivation, determination, honor, and courage. One of the most prevalent characteristics in these stories is courage. Courage is a characteristic that is present in “A Worn Path,” “Through the Tunnel,” “Paul’s Case,”…

forgotten” (Stiers). “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is one of the short stories whose theme is familial love. The story is about an old and small African-American woman named Phoenix Jackson from the Old Natchez Trace, who was occasionally on a journey to town to pick up a specific medicine for her grandson who has swallowed lye. During her trip, she encounters various obstacles that would hinder her from her goal. In the end, she succeeds and brings home the medicine. In “A Worn Path,” Phoenix…

The English 1A schema builders increased my appreciation and understanding of essays from 50 Essays, Lila, and “A Worn Path.” In Lila, some of the schema builders that I thought were very helpful were “Black Tuesday,” since it showed how inhumane prostitution truly was in the Depression Era. It is a Kinesthetic, Musical, and Visual schema builder. The woman in “The Cradle Will Rock - Nickel Under the Foot,” portrayed Lila as a woman who had to work through prostitution to survive, since it is…

Eudora Welty uses her main character, Phoenix Jackson, to symbolize and represent the hardships that African Americans, women and others faced during the early and mid-1900’s in her short story “A Worn Path”, and also shows that hard work and perseverance can help achieve any goal one has in mind. Phoenix is a very strong character that embodies the true meaning of perseverance and never giving up. Throughout the story, she faces obstacles living and non-existent. Along her journey, she faces…

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.…