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Racism In Eudora Welty's A Worn Path

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Eudora Welty is a renowned author who primarily writes about the American South. Her short story, “A Worn Path,” uses narrative techniques to develop a theme of the social discriminations of racism and classism. Racism is abundant in this story through symbolism. To begin with, the symbolism of the title, “A Worn Path,” represents the obstacles of African Americans when overcoming slavery and segregation. Also, the black dog attacking the white man portrays the ongoing rivalry between African American and White humans. In addition to racism, this story has cases of classism in it. Welty uses dialogue to show classism in this story. On the the characters in the story make the comment, “A charity case, I suppose” (Welty 1331). This is classism
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