A Worn Path

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“A Worn Path”

“A Worn Path” is a story of determination and true strength of a grandmother through her journey to her grandson’s salvation. The title itself explores a cyclical path that each of us encounters in our lives and will continue to do so in the future. “The Worn Path” begins and ends throughout the course of Phoenix Jackson’s journey. In the story "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, an old woman whose human spirit is full of devotion, dignity and high drive overcomes tremendous impediments of life in the name of love for her grandson.

Phoenix’s feebleness is evident through a description given portraying her as an elderly worn out woman whose hindered walk resembled “pendulum of a grandfather’s clock”. Her weaknesses and frail characteristics were plainly an impediment...

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