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A Worn Path By Eudora Welty

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The short story of Eudora Welty, A Worn Path, is a story of an elderly woman, Phoenix Jackson, who faces many obstacles and handles them calmly and collectively, despite her age, for her grandson, who many years ago swallowed lye by accident and now needs a dose of medicine periodically to live, which is where Jackson is traveling to. Eudora Welty uses characterization within her story to show the readers how old Jackson is, who should, by society’s standards, be decrepit and weak, but shines through that a conquers obstacles with her wit and courage. For example, the narrator of the story depicts Jackson as old, fragile, and small, but then through her actions, shows the reader that she is a force to be reckoned with. As spoken by the narrator,
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