Phoenix Jackson in A Worn Path

Throughout the story Phoenix comes across different bumps in the road, so to speak. “She was very old, and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness and lightness of a pendulum in a grandfather clock” (314). Phoenix Jackson is a woman who has lived a long life and every so often she has to make the trip by herself into town, so…

Contemporary Fiction America has been around for two hundred and thirty nine years and throughout these years we have seen much change in our nation especially after our wars. The postwar period brought much change to America, mainly focusing on the literature that followed after. After the wars, Americans did not know what to do. We were a unsettled nation wanting answers, but we never lost our spirit. In the writings of contemporary fiction, we have writers who are showing these in their…

hardships within racism. However just like surviving hardships with racism, many African Americans had to struggle just to get by. Like in Eudora Welty’s A Worn Path, “Her name was Phoenix Jackson. She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pin shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps” (Welty 1004). “Phoenix mounted the log and shut her eyes; she had to go through barbed-wire fence. There she had to creep and crawl, like a baby trying to climb the steps” (Welty…

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…

An example showing how a lifestyle could be difficult, in the story “A Worn Path” written by Eudora Welty, the main character Phoenix Jackson must carry out the hardships of being an elderly black woman living within the confines of a segregated region, and she must endure a long journey to retrieve medicine for her ill grandson. Modernist writers touch base…

Old Phoenix would have been lost if she had not distrusted her eyesight and depended on her feet to know where to take her. She paused quietly on the sidewalk, where people were passing by. A lady came along in the crowd, carrying an armful of red, green, and silver-wrapped presents; she gave off perfume like the red roses in hot summer, and Phoenix stopped her. 'Please, missy, will you lace up my shoe?' She held up her foot. 'What do you want, Grandma?' 'See my shoe,' said Phoenix.…