The Worn Path by Eudora Welty

This story is a short piece of work with a lot of detail. The old lady starts of a long journey into town, and it is not clear whether she is dreaming or not, for it is hard to believe that a woman so frail and old could walk so far  through bushes, creeks and farmland. She does have her moments of delirium but she quickly recovers. The first sign of reality comes when she meets the young white whom she interacts with briefly. An indication of the period in history is shown by the name the man calls her, and the response she gives when he asks her why she is not afraid of the gun he points at her. She finally arrives at the doctor's, where the author reveals that she is in fact taking care of her grand-son. The story is sad and touching, and it draws sympathy from the read. However, the woman is a little unreliable in the way she speaks and one is left to wonder if all the toil of walking so far in the heat was done in vain due to her old age.