Part one of term paper
Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” is a short story about an old black woman who periodically makes a journey to town. In this story Phoenix Jackson faces many trials on her way to town. Many of the conflicts she faces seem insurmountable but her strength enables her to overcome them. Phoenix Jackson’s health, age, sanity, state of pove ...

Part two of term paper
... old body and needs the cane to help her walk. The other suggested by Edgar V. Roberts is the she has trouble seeing and she uses it to feel her way to town “she may not have been completely blind but she had to have been substantially impaired to have kept tapping her cane in a redundant manner” (Roberts 196). The next conflict is her age. The narrator does not mention exactly how old Phoenix is, but “her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a pattern all its own of numbering branchless wri ...