Conflict In “A Worn Path”
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Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” is a short story about an old black woman who periodically makes a journey to town. In this story Phoenix Jackson faces many trials on her way to town. Many of the conflicts she faces seem insurmountable but her strength enables her to overcome them. Phoenix J ....
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The next conflict is her age. The narrator does not mention exactly how old Phoenix is, but “her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a pattern all its own of numbering branchless wrinkles…” (Roberts 197). This supports the idea that she is advanced in years, and as she makes the journey to town periodically it becomes harder and harder for her.
Another is a question of her sanity. Support for the theory that Phoenix is losing it “ when she sat down to rest … she dared not ....
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