Response to A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

Phoenix Jackson, the heroine of this story, is seen walking to the city called Natchez, like many other times in the past in order to get medicine for her grandson.

This journey has many fairytale-like qualities, meaning that the heroine is going through many situations that hinder her progress. Many of these obstacles are nature related. The way the narration develops I came to understand that it is not the physical aspect of her journey that makes it hard, but the fact that these physical endeavor symbolizes her internal struggles. This became apparent on account of as nature reflecting Phoenix's internal psychological struggles. She is having a hard time with her age and grandson's situation that nature itself manifests these struggles through bushes, trees and others. It is a very fascinating take of her story.

When Phoenix get to the Hospital and interacts with the nurses my eyes water. I seriously can't stop thinking that her grandson is actually long gone. Dead. She is lost in her mind, she forgets but keeps going to get his medicine out of deep love. It is a heartbreaking story. It is incredible how much emotion an implicated fact can cause. If the nurses hadn't ask whether her grandson was dead I don't think that I would have thought about it. It seems that this was intended. It makes her journey purposeful and justifies her internal struggles that as it happens they derive from eternal love and bonding to her grandson.