A Worn Path (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Eudora Welty
- First Published: 1941
- Type of Plot: Realism
- Time of Work: The early twentieth century
- Setting: Natchez, Mississippi
- Principal Characters: Phoenix Jackson
- Genres: Realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Courage, Women, Grandparents or grandchildren, Charities
- Locales: Natchez, MS
The Story
Phoenix Jackson makes her biannual visit to Natchez, walking for half a day in December to reach the medical clinic at which she receives, as charity, soothing medicine for her grandson. Having swallowed lye, he has suffered without healing for several years. Phoenix has made the journey enough times that her path to Natchez seems a worn path. Furthermore, part of that is the old Natchez trace, a road worn deep into the Mississippi landscape by centuries of travelers returning northeast after boating down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
Phoenix is the oldest...
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