Death In Eudora Welty's A Worn Path
A theme in a short story is a primary message that the author is trying to convey. The theme of death plays a significant role in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”, perseverance dominates Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”,and freedom is the clear theme in Kate Chopin’s “Story of an Hour.”
In “A Rose for Emily”, the main character Emily Grierson become demented due to the passing of her father. Emily soon meets “a Yankee- a big,dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face”(Faulkner 1070), named Homer Barron. Miss Emily and him established an interest in one another. Shortly the townspeople believed that Emily and Homer got married, they were truly happy for them. After a while Homer leaves town, and Emily decides to go …show more content…
She takes a long journey to get her grandson’s medicine. She is faced with many obstacles but, eventually she arrives at her destination. When it comes to Phoenix, the reader can not judge a book by its cover. As she still walks to Natchez, Phoenix must cope with unequal power that are inherently tied to her age, her race, and her class. But Phoenix perseveres. Despite the fact that she falls in a ditch and has to be rescued by the white hunter. Helping Phoenix up was a kind gesture, but after this the interaction between Phoenix and the hunter became questionable and a little rude. The hunter asks Phoenix many questions, “ On your way home? No sir, I going to town.Why that's too far! That's as far as I walk when I come out myself, and I get something for my trouble. He patted the stuffed bag he carried, and there hung down a little closed claw. It was one of the bobwhites, with its beak hooked bitterly to show it was dead. Now you go on home, Granny!I bound to go to town, mister” (Welty 670). Phoenix’s journey on this “A worn path”, is loaded with hardship and is that she makes these trips “just as regular as clockwork”(Welty 671). Also she on her journey she does not only obtain the medicine but she also gets enough money to buy her grandson a present. Even though life has been hard for her, she still want to show her grandson how great the world is through that present. Phoenix’s journey shows how perseverance can give power even to those in positions of
In “A Rose for Emily”, the main character Emily Grierson become demented due to the passing of her father. Emily soon meets “a Yankee- a big,dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face”(Faulkner 1070), named Homer Barron. Miss Emily and him established an interest in one another. Shortly the townspeople believed that Emily and Homer got married, they were truly happy for them. After a while Homer leaves town, and Emily decides to go …show more content…
She takes a long journey to get her grandson’s medicine. She is faced with many obstacles but, eventually she arrives at her destination. When it comes to Phoenix, the reader can not judge a book by its cover. As she still walks to Natchez, Phoenix must cope with unequal power that are inherently tied to her age, her race, and her class. But Phoenix perseveres. Despite the fact that she falls in a ditch and has to be rescued by the white hunter. Helping Phoenix up was a kind gesture, but after this the interaction between Phoenix and the hunter became questionable and a little rude. The hunter asks Phoenix many questions, “ On your way home? No sir, I going to town.Why that's too far! That's as far as I walk when I come out myself, and I get something for my trouble. He patted the stuffed bag he carried, and there hung down a little closed claw. It was one of the bobwhites, with its beak hooked bitterly to show it was dead. Now you go on home, Granny!I bound to go to town, mister” (Welty 670). Phoenix’s journey on this “A worn path”, is loaded with hardship and is that she makes these trips “just as regular as clockwork”(Welty 671). Also she on her journey she does not only obtain the medicine but she also gets enough money to buy her grandson a present. Even though life has been hard for her, she still want to show her grandson how great the world is through that present. Phoenix’s journey shows how perseverance can give power even to those in positions of