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A Worn Path
Title: A Worn Path
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 745 | Pages: 3.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
A Worn Path
The story ³A Worn Path,² by Eudora Welty, tells the
journey on foot of an elderly black women, Phoenix
Jackson, from her home to the nearest town. She makes
the journey to go to the doctor to get medicine for
her sick grandson. On the trip, she runs into some
trouble here and there with her dress getting caught
in the underbrush and old age getting to her. She
encounters a big dog that knocks …showed first 75 words of 745 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 745 total…In Phoenix¹s encounter with the hunter, trip into the
woods and to the doctor¹s office, and memory loss ,
age and class alienate her from society.
Bibliography
Aldridge, John W. Critiques and Essays on Modern
Fiction 1920-1951. New York:The Ronald Press Company,
1952.
Magill, Frank N. ³Eudora Welty.² Critical Survey of
Short Story Fiction. California: Salem Press, 1993,
2430-2439.
Welty, Eudora. ³A Worn Path.² Literature for
Composition. 5th ed. Ed. Sylvan Barnet et al. New
York: Longman, 2000
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