Essay on the Character of a Worn Path

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The old Negro woman in “A worn path” of Eudora Welty, Phoenix Jackson, is just a normal one, but her special characters. In spite of the old age, she is very brave, strong and optimistic. Besides, she is an old woman who gives her grandson a great love. In order to meet a doctor to take medicine for her beloved grandson, with her brave, strength and optimism, she overcame the extremely difficult journey to go to faraway town. A path she had to go was a worn path with so many troubles. When she caught sight of a quivering in the thicket, instead of being scared or protecting herself, she still kept calm and said strongly: “Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animals!...” She then used her special cane to switch at the bush to rouse up any hiding things. After going up to the top of the hill, she strongly said “Up through pines, now down through oaks” as if she had been playing an interesting game which she was very familiar. Due to the dangerous troubles of the path, she was suddenly caught by a bush; more painfully, it was a thorny bush. Although it was not easy for her to escape from it, she was still happy and also gave the bush a good comment, “Thorns, you doing your appointed work…” Her next obstacle was the log laid across the creek. Being confident, she mounted the log with the statement ‘now comes the trial’ and finished it with another lovely one ‘I wasn’t as old as I thought’. Though she felt so hungry that she imagined meeting a little boy with a slide of marble-cake, she tried her best to keep going on and other obstacles were waiting for her. After creeping and crawling through a barbed-wire fence, she passed through a dead corn field whose corn was taller than her head and she felt like she was passing ‘through the maze now’. Taking a scarecrow for a ghost, without any fears, she said sharply ‘Ghost, who be you

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