In the short story "A Worn Path" written by Eudora Welty, she talks about a journey that an old, under-educated, African American women named Phoenix Jackson takes. This old woman lived in the back woods of Natchez Trace. She had to walk ever so far, to a little town to get her grandson medicine. During this journey she encounters different hurdles that would be easy for a younger person to accomplish. In this short story, Phoenix's thoughts are written down in a manner as a child was speaking, which is somewhat confusing and hard to understand.
In the first few paragraphs of the short store Welty describes Phoenix. Welty writes "She carried a thin, small cane made from an umbrella, and with this she kept tapping the frozen earth in front of her, this made a grave and persistent noise in the still air, that seemed meditative like a chirping of a solitary little bird."…
