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How A Worn Path By: Eudora Welty is as Relevant Today as it was in 1941
Jeremy Vernon
Tiffin University
October 5, 2013

Cohort 19
ENG365 Issues In Literature
How A Worn Path By: Eudora Welty is as Relevant Today as it was in 1941

In the story A Worn Path by Eudora Welty her character Phoenix Jackson is persisting in her journey through the “pinewoods” (Eudora, 1941). Welty appears to have chosen her character’s name to resemble the mythological creature the phoenix, and has made connections from the animal to the character Phoenix Jackson. I “A Worn Path” Welty places Phoenix in difficult situations in which she conquers the obstacles and seems to renew her spirit to achieve her goals. Through Welty’s story she was showing that no matter what happens things will be ok and you just have to keep on going no matter what happens. Many of the issues faced throughout Welty’s story are as prevalent today as they were in 1941; they just need to be looked at under a different light or from another perspective.
In the second paragraph Welty says “She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops” (Eudora, 1941 p.1360). She also talked about a “red rag tied on her head” (Eudora, 1941). In most references to a phoenix they are described as having long feathers that reach down to their feet like a robe. In respect to their bodies the head of the bird is rather short feathered, like a rag tied to a person’s head compared to a robe hanging to their feet. The mythological phoenix is reborn from ashes that are created from its own demise; this is because at the time of death the phoenix burst into flames. Welty showed that each obstacle that Phoenix encounters could have been seen as the death of the bird, and her overcoming these obstacles is her “rebirth” from the ashes. Also Welty talks about the cane that Phoenix is using “tapping the ice, making sounds like a bird” (Eudora, 1941). This is another reference to Welty’s character being similar to a...