Phoenix Jackson in A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty, is the bill of phoenix Jackson, an elderly adult female who undergoes a journey which leads her to a nearby town. To most, this journey would count simple and straightforward. Although, for Phoenix, it seems that this journey that she meets lots into town, retains a physical and amiable toll on her. As to why she keeps on taking these trips into town, its because of her ill stricken grandson. In a synapsis, Phoenix goes through with(predicate) certain obstacles; climbs a hill, spend a penny her way through or so woods, climbed through a fence, and traverse a stream by walking on a fallen log everyplace the water. Soon after she locomote into a ditch, helpless, a hunting watch strolls by and rescues her. Many would asseverate that yes, Phoenix underwent a deed of a challenges to go into town, barely any elderly would corroborate suffered the same hardships that she did. Welty did not affix a sense of resolution at all, even when she we nt into the chemists shop; there was no movement 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 judgement Welty paints the story in, could all throw to Phoenixs reference work. Firmly, she still is not a hero, and the only contend she is face is between her and the path that she is on. The battle itself is only rough because of her spate of age. Phoenix is weak, and frail, she cant even countenance herself without her thin cane. Its admirable what she does for her grandson, notwithstanding the notion of it being bold needs to be dismissed. realistically it only shows that Phoenix is contumacious and stubborn. She needs to learn to take care of herself and not personal line of credit her body so much. This is meet 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 t ake step back and pick up Phoenix from the grandsons point of view. eventide though Welty did not put out extensively ab...