Mending Wall By Eudora Welty Analysis

I decided to compare the neighbor in Robert Frost’s poem, Mending Wall, to the hunter in Eudora Welty’s story, A Worn Path. In Robert Frost’s poem, the neighbor is making the narrator mad because the neighbor has a wall and the narrator doesn’t like it. The narrator insists that the neighbor should take the wall down but the neighbor doesn’t want to and everytime the narrator complains about the wall, the neighbor just says “Good fences make good neighbors.” At the end of the poem, we find out that the neighbor continues to say this because his father used to say it. This shows that the neighbor likes to hold on to traditions and because he refuses to take the wall down this also shows that he doesn’t like to try or accept new things. In Eudora