A Worn Path

A Worn Path

Part 1

"Eudora Welty's Worn Path", the story that emphasizes the natural symbolism of the surroundings. As the story begins, we meet our main character, Phoenix Jackson; she is described as a small, old Negro woman. I believe that the name of Eudora Welty gives our main character is very symbolic. Bird said out of Arabia every 500 years to Heliopolis, where he burned himself on the altar and rose from the ashes, young and beautiful. Phoenix, women in history, is a myth about a bird, because it is described as elderly people and at the end of ...