Symbolic Citations in a Worn Path by Eudora Welty

In the short story ‘a worn path’ by Eudora Welty she uses symbolism to describe many of the characters and objects that are given in the short story. Symbolism is to use symbols to represent ideas and qualities. In ‘a worn path’ Eudora does so she uses manifolds of characters and objects to express the way the story is being told in her own way. As doing so she helps the reader understand it more sufficiently and to show that what is going on is still happening today.

In the short story ‘a worn pass’ by Eudora Welty she uses several of characters for specific reasons and various objects as well.The short story tells use about an old lady name phoenix Jackson she is a blind elderly women and she has to go on a far journey through the woods. She has gone on that path so many times that she knows her way around although she is blind. With her she has a cane to help her get around she uses to make sure that if something is in front of her it will get out of her way if it is a creature it will move if not she will know to go around it. On the way to her destination there is a hill that she has to climb up in order to get where she needs to. Phoenix remembers that there was always something up the hill that would get a hold of her so as she is going up the hill she caught by thorn bush and she speaks to the bush saying ‘Thorns, you doing your appointed work. Never want to let folks pass…’ and by that she is saying that a thorns job is to keep people from crossing where they are and it was doing just as it was meant to do. She did not want for the dress to be torn because that was probably the only dress she had and she probably didn’t have money to buy another so she finally untangles her dress and kept going over the hill once done s...

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