A Worn Path

In “A Worn Path” the author, Eudora Welty, describes an old black woman and her journey through the woods into town. Phoenix Jackson, the old woman, obviously was very poor. “She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops, and an equally long apron of bleached sugar sacks, with a full pocket: all neat and tidy, but every time she took a step she might have fallen over her shoelaces, which dragged …

…this journey and never gave up. Phoenix shows the reader that nothing in the world cold stop her efforts to get to town because of her love for her grandson. Because of her determination, sneakiness, love, and bravery, she is a character everyone could enjoy reading about. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** BIBLIOGRAPHY Welty, Eudora. “A Worn Path.” Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Henry Jacobs. 5th ed. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1998. 132-137.