Phoenix Jackson in A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty, is the fib of genus Phoenix Jackson, an elderly charwoman who undergoes a journey which leads her to a nearby town. To most, this journey would attend simple and straightforward. Although, for Phoenix, it seems that this journey that she soak ups practically into town, hits a physical and cordial toll on her. As to why she keeps on winning these trips into town, its because of her ill stricken grandson. In a synapsis, Phoenix goes through and through certain obstacles; climbs a hill, require her way through close to woods, climbed through a fence, and traverse a stream by walking on a fallen log over the water. Soon after she waterfall into a ditch, helpless, a hunter strolls by and rescues her. Many would prescribe that yes, Phoenix underwent a performance of a challenges to go into town, only any elderly would generate suffered the same hardships that she did. Welty did non adhesive plaster a sense of gallantry at all, even when she w ent into the drugstore; there was no straw man of strength or authority.\nThis trip, if anything, could be symbolic to such(prenominal) cliches such as a heros quest. The woods, the obstacles, the intuitive feeling Welty paints the story in, could all chip in to Phoenixs compositors case. Firmly, she still is not a hero, and the only encounter she is facing is between her and the path that she is on. The battle itself is only rough because of her peck of age. Phoenix is weak, and frail, she cant even body forth herself without her thin cane. Its admirable what she does for her grandson, and the notion of it being lofty needs to be dismissed. realistically it only shows that Phoenix is long-lived and stubborn. She needs to learn to take care of herself and not signifier her body so much. This is on the button one of looking at it, my way.\nStated countless of times, Phoenix as a character portrayed by Welty is not a hero in the truest sense of the word. Yet lets take ste p back and imagine Phoenix from the grandsons point of view. evening though Welty did not put out extensively ab...