One question that has been raised about this story is whether or not the grandson really exists. Eventually, Phoenix gets the medicine she was after in the first place. It gives us a perception of her, which is what is meant to happen. Her clothes are tattered, she is very old, and very poor. The grotesque part of the story would be the way she is pictured in our minds. She had a hard background, which made her the tough person she is. Here, we see that Phoenix had been through something in her life that was not enjoyable. 'Doesn't the gun scare you?', 'No, Sir, I seen plenty go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done'. He points the gun at her, but she makes no reaction. Phoenix meets a boy along the walk, who has a gun because he is hunting. The literature flows in a way that describes exactly what she looks like, poor and old, but extremely determined.

We are able to hear her thoughts and see her actions, yet we are also able to see her from a distance in the text. The walk through the woods is so amazing, because it truly shows you what kind of person she is.

Phoenix is on a journey to town through the woods in order to get medicine for her grandson. This short story is about a woman named Phoenix Jackson. The story I would like to address by Welty is called 'A Worn Path'. Her photos sometimes inspired her writing, and you can really connect many of them together. Not only was Welty a great author, but she was a great photographer as well. Welty was a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers founded in 1987. Phoenix Jackson is presented in the words of Dean Bethea: вЂњas an individual trapped within the very real boundaries of a historically defined, deeply racist societyвЂќ (Bethea 4).Eudora Welty was a short-story and novel writer from Jackson Mississippi. The social dynamics even after the end of slavery reflected a miserable picture to the blacks that were now oppressed by poverty and discrimination of all sorts if not slavery. #3 English 102 Slaughter 6-25-12 This was the place slavery was most dominant and consequently the contrast between black and white most obvious. The economic rise of the South in the early years of American history rested on the muscle power of the imported African slaves, and being central in the expansion of the Cotton Empire in the South, cities like Natchez made economies based on such slave trade with the rest of the country, making the south the richest part of America вЂњwhere by 1850 two-thirds of the nationвЂ™s millionaires livedвЂќ (Bethea 6) yet PhoenixвЂ™s life was condemed to poverty. This trace and the town itself both hold historic meaning for America and the African-American slaves brought into the land and distributed through these routes. The destination of the story is the southern town of Natchez, with its вЂњgrandiose architectural gemsвЂќ (Bethea 3) situated at the end of the Natchez Trace. In the face of this adversity and helplessness however, we also see a resolution, a struggle for resurrection and the ever-continuing cycle of life despite complete disparity, in the form of the main character Phoenix Jackson. With the historical backdrop of oppression and the social conditions of that time when the story was written, the writer opens our eyes to the irony, racism and indifference that were an everyday event to the colored races of America, not so long ago. #2 English 102 Slaughter 6-25-12 She first appears as a stereotype of an old black woman, with her typical long dress, superstitions, and the habit of talking to herself (Bethea 2) but as we move along with her we recognize her sense of dignity, pride, her dreams, her devotion and purpose, a woman with all the human complexity of one belonging to any race, but with a much more strengthened outlook to life and the obstacles it brings about. The journey itself witch is never ending leaves Phoenix in a state of constant motion and struggle.

A worn path by eudora welty