Реферат: Worn Path By Eudora Welty Essay Research

to achieve their goal no matter what stands in their way. In this case Phoenix

is a poor woman and the money catches her eye. Acting on her instinct, she takes

what is not hers and hopes that she can get away with it. However, because of

her perseverance and determination to better the health of her grandson, Phoenix

journeys into town to receive charity that the doctor?s office provides her.

This ?soothing medicine? they give her is the reason why she makes this trip

in the first place (136). However, she is looked upon as a charity case since

she has no money to pay for the medication he needs and is given the medicine

for free. All of these examples that Welty has described in ?A Worn Path?

allow her story to develop by making readers think about what she writes.

Poverty is an important issue in today?s society and it makes one think of all

the fortunes they have. In this sense, Welty also makes one fear poverty by the

way she addresses it. The images allow one to feel Phoenix?s pain that comes

along with poverty. Joyce Carol Oates backs up this statement by adding that by

?disciplining her [Welty?s] vision in order to gain deeper penetration into

the dark and lovely realities of the lonely human spirit and shaping her fiction

so that each story should be something achieved…? (362). Oates simply means

that Welty goes beyond normal realities in order to grab the reader?s

attention. Through poverty, Welty takes a worldwide problem and stretches it to

a level in which the person reading her story feels saddened by the power she

displays. To be old, poor, and a surrogate mother is a hard job, and Welty does

a wonderful job of portraying this through the underlying problem of poverty.

Another overpowering element in ?A Worn Path? is Phoenix?s age. Welty

writes that she has ?numberless branching wrinkles? which illustrates that

she has many years behind her (132). It is here that Welty begins painting a

portrait in which the reader can envision scenes from her story. Because of her

old age, Phoenix lets her feet do the walking while her mind runs free and wild.

This is where her age seems as though it is a constant problem. As seen in the

movies or in real life, old people often have a problem with keeping all of