A Worn Path Eudora Welty’s, A Worn Path, is about an elderly African-American woman in the 1930’s named Phoenix Jackson, whose love for her grandson takes her on a long and difficult journey. Phoenix’s mission is to make it through the Mississippi woods on her way to town to get medicine from the doctor for her sick grandson. She is faced with many physical, mental and racial obstacles and has to overcome adversity throughout the course of her journey. Phoenix Jackson is a very feeble, old woman who clearly should not be trekking through the forest alone. She first hears a noise in the bushes and warns the wild animals in an effort to show her determination.
She struggles to keep her dress from tearing from all the thorn bushes that she runs into. With her old age, the journey is very dangerous and foolish for Phoenix to make on her own. Through perseverance, Phoenix overcomes these physical obstacles to reach her destination to receive medicine for her beloved grandson. Phoenix’s old age magnifies the mental stress that made the long, harsh course even more difficult
ALthough she had perfectly preserved intelligence and cognitive thinking, she dismisses all qualities of her left side. She can even be unaware of the fact that she has put makeup on the right side and not the left and been completely unaware of that. For her case, Mrs.S is put into physical and mental therapy to cope with the aftermath of her stroke. Cupids Disease Eighty years old, frantic and hormonal this woman expressed symptoms of lust, energy and drive(sexually and physically.) Once concerned that she was an elderly woman with these feelings and more drive than shes ever had, she saw a specialists confused.
“A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a story of an elderly black woman “ her head tied in a red rag, coming along path through the pinewoods. Her named was Phoenix Jackson” (Welty 82). Phoenix travels a long journey to town to acquire medicine for her grandson at the doctor’s office and the elderly woman goes through struggles against intense fatigue and poor eyesight, as well as such obstacles as thorn bushes and barbed wire and loose dogs such as.“ A black dog with a lolling tongue” (Welty 84). On that note, this illustrates that Phoenix Jackson overcomes many obstacles to reach her destination. It’s December when Phoenix starts on her journey to Natchez and it is a journey she has taken many times before.
Latisha LC Isaac Eng 1102 Analytical Essay Corrections October 13, 2012 An Analysis of “A Worn Path”, by Eudora Welty Everyone has their own journey in life, and their path might be filled with many ups and downs. For instance, Phoenix Jackson, much like the mythological bird that rises from the ashes, exhibits great perseverance and strength as she faces difficulties and hardships in the short story, “A Worn Path”, by Eudora Welty. Phoenix, who is very old woman, travels to town, through woods and fields, to obtain medication for her sick grandson. Although the path is worn because it had been trailed a many of times, Phoenix faces many wild animals. However, in spite of the negative connotations that wild animals might be a hindrance to Phoenix, they are actually motivation.
Worn Path: Symbolism In short, you could say that “A Worn Path” describes the journey of an elderly black woman named Phoenix Jackson who walks from her home to the city to get some medicine for her sick grandson, but it is so much more than that. Phoenix faces many obstacles in her path and she has to overcome all of them to get to the city. She over comes all of these obstacles, not only physically but emotionally as well. Symbolism also presents itself in many parts of “A Worn Path.” When one begins to analyze the symbolism in this story, one should begin at the title. According to Hamm, Jackson’s path is worn not only because she has traveled it many times, but because it has been followed by countless, self-sacrificing others.
Another theme is the thoughts on illegal immigrants; universal people believe they are bad news but they never put themselves in the immigrants’ shoes and what they can lose. The last that I recognized is keeping in touch with your roots; this whole book the characters keep ahold of their past. For example Taylor with her Indian and Kentucky background and Turtle with her Indian. 4. Elements of style: Throughout the book she has areas where she goes into great detail about the scenery.
Throughout the story we observe the racism African-Americans endured during the Civil Rights movement, and the duties and responsibilities of an elderly woman. Although the 1940's were the turning point for the Civil Rights Movement, African-Americans were still scrutinized by whites routinely. During Phoenix's trip to get medicine, she gets knocked into a ditch by a dog, and can't get out by herself. Eventually a white hunter helps her out. Although the man helps her, he immediately makes it clear that he has prejudice thoughts towards African-Americans.
Alex Beshaw Mr. Hoskins October 3rd,2011 “What is A worn Path?” “ What is the author trying to say?” I wonder The story A Worn Path is about a elderly black women named Phenix. She is on a very long and worn path to the city but doesn't remember why. She travels the path so often and so well that her feet guide her the right way. Which shows that the worn path isn't just a physical path it is also a worn path in her mind, there is a lot of symbols and things that show that Phenix has walked this path many times before. Even though she has lost her eyesight and can visualize it in her head and know exactly where she is.
Jasmine Constantino Academy of Mount St. Ursula Structural Essay “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty initially presents itself as a story that is simple in its plot. The beginning, or exposition at the beginning of the story, introduces the reader to Pheonix Jackson. She is an elderly 'Negro' woman, who is on her way to town (a trip which probably took a few hours, more or less). At first, the main obstacles which present themselves appear to be physical. The walk through the route, while it would be fairly simple for a younger person, is a very difficult trek for her.