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Literary Analysis of Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path"

An Amazing Portrait of Race in the American South

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A short list of Southern writers, have long ruled the literary landscape with their passionate, detailed and often heartbreaking views of the American South. Welty’s short story “A Worn Path”, has become one of the most popular examples of the ability of an author to cross both class and color lines while still remaining true to her subject and clearly resonating to the reader the extraordinary power that is the human spirit. In Welty's “A Worn Path”, Phoenix Jackson's thoughts and perceptions, as well as her encounters with other characters, illustrate the theme of impending black equality in Southern America after the Civil War. 

Takeaways
  • the story illustrates impending black equality in Southern America after the Civil War.
  • Phoenix Jackson is an old black woman who journeys through the obstacle filled Mississippi woods.
  • Without our ancestors to pave the way, to wear down the path, where would we be.
Did You Know?
Eudora Welty also wrote "Death of a Traveling Salesman"
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Posted on 09/18/2008 at 8:09:34 PM

 
This story is about much, much more than just a physical journey. Read some mythology, especially the Chinese version of the Phoenix. This story parallels it so closely and in a way even tells the Phoenix myth. Notice in the first paragraph there are references to all of the colors of the Phoenix stages with the exception of gold. (white--bright frozen, black--Negro, red--red rag, pinewoods [also known as evergreens]. Then there should be gold [or yellow] which we find later in her skin and after she walks up the stairs--the gold frame and gold seal.) There is so much to this story that most people miss. Eudora wrote an entirely different story between the lines of "A Worn Path."

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Posted on 02/07/2008 at 7:02:16 PM

 
Just a warning to people thinking of using this essay. It is largely plagiarized from the following source: Welty, Eudora. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. New York: Harcourt, 1980. Furthermore, it is extremely wordy and needs much revision in terms of parallelism, unity, and coherence. It does contain some good ideas (most likely b/c of the plagiarism), but to plagiarize a plagiarized essay . . . you can do better.

Posted on 11/06/2007 at 9:11:00 AM

 
this was very helpful! thank you!

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