12/07/13 Alissa Valdez Essay B
A Worn out Path “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is about a woman who is described as “an old negro woman.” Her name is Phoenix Jackson, she walks through a long path on a winter morning; at the end of her long journey she doesn’t realize why she walks through the worn path. While walking through the long path she conquers many obstacles she deals with animals, gets caught on bushes and barb-wire fences, goes over bridges and bumps into rued people. People who show no respect towards her because of age and racial appearance. “Up through pines,” she said at length. “Now down through oaks.” She sounds very optimistic, nothing seems to stop her on her way to where ever she’s going. She says “I bound to go to town…” “The time come around.” Time to get her grandson’s medication, I believe. Memories can effect a love one. For example Ms. Phoenix Jackson went to town into a big building for her grandsons medication, but she doesn’t say if her grandson is still alive when she’s asked by the nurses in the building. So it could be that every winter season she would go into town for her grandson’s medication and continues to do so although he might be dead. “…she went into the big building, and into a tower of steps, where she walked up and around and around until her feet knew when to stop.” This sentence makes me believe that she didn’t remember exactly were the office was but if she saw it she would recognize it. The author uses Third Person Point of View, limited omniscient. As I read “A worn Path” I wasn’t sure what it was about. It