Eudora Welty's A Worn Path

Who loves you more than Grandma? Phoenix Jackson is the main character and the protagonist of the story “A Worn Path”. The story is being told from the third person point of view. It gives the readers a vision about the setting and the woman’s body movement. According to Claxton, Welty had described the setting as a wintry morning and compares Phoenix movement as a clock and a bird. The clock and bird is used as a symbol of the story. Love and determination conquer the world.

In the story, Welty had portrayed the experiences which Phoenix had experience tribulation such racism, segregation, and inequality. Over centuries, Black Americans have suffered these tribulations. According to Claxton, Black American women portrayed as being connected

There was different variety of characters in the story besides Phoenix such as her grandson, the hunter, nurse at the hospital, and as well as the animals. Welty expresses how Phoenix cares and respects the others, during the interaction process with the other characters in the narrative. In the story, Phoenix had treated the animals as her children, when she came cross in the forest and train them with the ability to be strong. In the story, other characters aren’t carried out as most as Phoenix which creates a pattern to the natural world for human to cross slowly. According to Claxton, Welty had created the character to connect nature by expressing Phoenix as a wisdom and knowledgeable person. However, Phoenix became soft-spoken with her interaction with the hunter, and the nurse which shows her respect toward them. Respect must be earned to

In the story, Welty interpreted that Phoenix had arrived at the hospital. On the other hand, Phoenix will finally be able to get the medicine needed for her grandson. The nurse kept asking Phoenix questions. However, Phoenix explains to the nurses that she needs medicine for her grandson. Throughout the story, Welty expresses the affection the woman has for her grandson. By letting the readers know Phoenix is the only family member toward her grandson. In the story, the child’s mother and father weren’t present. According to Claxton, during the early 1940s, mothers and fathers were forced to work for the white people. So that’s explains why Phoenix was the caregiver for her grandson. At the end of the story, it expresses the holiday’s spirit; the attendant gave Phoenix a nickel. Phoenix shows love to her grandson by buying him a toy only with two