A Worn Path by Eudora Welty :: essays research papers

What was intriguing to me about this story was how detailed it was. The author paints a clear picture of what the setting is and the character. The first paragraph of the story is a great example of the author describing the character and the setting. It was December-a bright frozen day in the early morning. Far out there was an old blackness woman with her head tied in a red rag, approach along a manner through the pinewoods. She was very old and down in the mouth and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows, moving a elf analogous from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness and lightness of a pendulum in a grandfather clock. She carried a thin, small cane do from an umbrella, and with this she kept the frozen earth in front of her. This made a grave and persistent noise in the still that seemed meditative like the chirping of a solitary little bird.The emotions I felt were both apt and sad. As I was getting close to end of the story I felt sad when I read that genus Phoenix Jackson was living alone with her grandson, who is sick, and that hes waiting for her alone back home. I also felt sad for her because she went through some obstacles during her journey to townsfolk such as going under a barbed-wire fence, coming crosswise a man and his dog and passed through some thorny bush. I was happy when she reached her destination and got the medicine that she needed for her grandson. Although at her elderly time she was still witty when she tricked the hunter and took the nickle for herself. Phoenix accomplished something that she wanted to do and that brought a smile to my face. When you look into a dictionary the meaning of Phoenix is a unique bird that periodically burned itself on a funeral pyre and was born again from the ashes. Maybe that says something about Phoenix Jackson. Her funeral was the path and she was born again when she reached the office.I saw Phoenix Jackson as a positive, strong person who is very determined and doe snt permit anything get in the way of her path.