A Worn Path Eudora Welty Analysis

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A Worn Path and The Leader of the people The era of modern literature connects parts of life such as loss, which everyone goes through and deals with in different shapes or forms, but doesn’t understand. “The Leader of the people” written by John Steinbeck is a short story sharing the bond between a young boy and his grandfather set on an old family ranch. “A Worn Path” written by Eudora Welty set in 1930 late in the depression out in the rural of Mississippi. Welty’s story of Phoenix Jackson’s walk down a worn path happens to be very similar to Steinbeck’s story of Jody’s grandfather and his strolls down memory lane. In “The Leader of the People” Jody is a young boy who lives on a ranch with his mother and father. He is a boy with lots of energy and seems to get into mischief all around the ranch. His latest idea was to kill all of the mice that were living in an old haystack. His mind was just racing with ideas until he sees his father riding back on a horse with a letter. He runs to the house and finds out that his grandfather is coming into town. Jody became very egger to see his grandfather unlike his father Carl who was not so found of his father-in-laws stories that he tells over and over again. Once the grandfather arrives everyone is very pleased to see him but once the family was settled in and eating dinner grandpa…show more content…
Old Phoenix is set in a routine to get medicine for her son, even if there really is no son, or he isn’t sick we can never be sure. Jody’s grandfather has a problem letting go of the past. They both suffer from a memory loss or being confused because of old age. Luckily for the both of them they have family or communities who look after them, protect them from what they can no longer accept. Modern age literature survives through the true meaning of theme. Modernism took new ideas that people were uncomfortable with and made it
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