A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

In this story Phoenix Jackson is the protagonist. She is fat, old and an African American woman who proves tove an static character who has in mind to go to the town and nothing will make her change her mind. The setting takes place in the south becaue it talks about the cotton fields, it is during the month of December very close to the 25th. It is a sunny day as she she cries, " 'Sun so high!' ". The plot of the story is that she needs to get to the town but she is having many difficulties as she describes her troubles as she walks through the fields and it also talks about the encounter she had with the hunter. The conflict is external because she is having physical impediments to get to her final destination.The point of view is first person. A great theme for this story is Believe in yourself, because she keeps believing she can do what she has set her mind to do eventhough she encounters many barriers. The author uses metaphors, a good example of a metaphor is on page 215 when she describes the scarecrow. She says, "Bib dead trees, like black men with one arm, were standing in the purple stalks of the withered cotton field.

My first thought of the story was that Phoenix Jackson, an old black lady, was a slave trying to scape. As she describes all the troubles she has to undergo to get somewhere. So when she encountered the white hunter I thought he was going to kill her or turn her in. When he tells her to keep going I thought " he is just a good man who probably disapproves of slavery. Later as he points his rifle at her I thought. "Oh he is going to kill her" My heart beat did raise for a while. Then when she finally arrives at the doctor's office I realized what she was doing and I also sensed that she is facing Alzheimer's as she keeps staring straight ahead when the nurses talk to her; like she is set on her own world. She loves her grandson because with the money she kept from the "white" hunter and the nickle the nurse gave her, she decides to go buy something for her grandson instead of keeping it for some other use.