An Analysis Of Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”

Part I of Essay
Just recently I read something very special which I think a lot of people would also enjoy reading themselves. It is a short story by Eudora Welty entitled “ A Worn Path.” An intriguing black woman in her nineties by the name of Phoenix Jackson sets off on a journey of l ....

Part II of Essay
.... her eyes when she is across. Along her journey she comes upon a barbed-wire fence. She crawls and creeps through to only come across a field of dead corn. There she comes before a scarecrow that she mistakes for death. She laughs at herself for thinking that the scarecrow was a ghost. Continuing on her path she bends down to drink from a spring of water. Being unaware a dog jumps on top of her and she lands in a ditch. A white hunter encounters her and helps her out. As they converse a nickel falls from the white man’s pocket. Phoenix p ....