Реферат: Worn Path By Eudora Welty Essay Research

barriers to the expressive love of old Phoenix, and this is reflected also in

her sense of familiarity with nature…? (29). This familiarity allows the

reader to feel that Welty?s character has a deep love for nature. In the

story, Welty includes many conversations with animals during her journey through

the woods. Basically Welty?s character appears comfortable with nature and

does not see the journey as a burden, as does the reader, but as an adventure.

Not only does her journey endanger her, but the fact that she is making this

journey for the love of her grandson adds so much more to her effect of the

story. Furthermore, these incidents indicate that Phoenix adapts to the dangers

that face her, and allows the plot to then become clear. Welty catches the

reader?s attention by how real her short story seems. Even though many people

may never experience Phoenix?s problems, the descriptions and images she uses

allows her to create a powerful story in which many feel they can relate to in

some way. Her three major problems, poverty, old age, and some form of a

journey, are all obstacles which all of her readers will one day face as they

travel through their own paths.

Jacobs, Henry E. and Roberts, Edgar V. Literature: An Introduction to Reading

and Writing. 5th ed. new Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998: 131-137. Oates,

Joyce C. ?Eudora Welty.? Contemporary Literary Criticism. 1973 ed. 361.

Vande Kieft, Ruth M. Eudora Welty. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1987.