Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path"

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This paper presents a positive review of Eurdora Welty's novel, "A Worn Path, describing it as inspirational and humbling. The paper explains that the story, about an elderly black woman's long journey taken for the sake of her sick grandson, is much like a parable in that the story's main character and her trials can be read as a comparison to Christ, a carpenter's son who sacrificed himself for human salvation.

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"Upon reading of Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path", one finds an unlikely heroine through Phoenix Jackson, an elderly black woman who makes a trek, which to us seems like a short trip, but to her is one of epic proportions. The details of her journey consumes most of the length of the story, and one can be left with the impression that this is a senile old woman who has strayed too far from home. This view is shared by the hunter whom Phoenix encounters within the story who tells her, "Why, that's too far! Now you go on home, Granny!""

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