A WORN PATH
Eudora Welty
Jeania White-Tucker
February 2006
Mr. Gural
Critique of a short story
A Worn Path Eudora Welty
In her short story "A Worn Path," Eudora Welty tells the story of one old woman in a way that from the beginning raises questions of suspense in what is really a simple tale made more complex by the characterization and by the way information is revealed in the course of the story.
Phoenix Jackson is an Old "negro" woman she lived in the forest way back behind the ridge. Old Aunt Phoenix was small and she walked slowly with a cane made from an umbrella. She wore an Apron and along dark colored dress that she had to constantly pull up as she continued on her journey, so it wouldn't get caught on anything.
Aunt Phoenix is traveling through the forest. "Up the through pines" "Now down threw oaks she says" continuing her long journey into town. There are many obstacles that she has to get through on her way in to town, her dress gets caught on what......
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