Summary Of A Worn Path By Eudora Welty

The story I choose for this discussion is “A worn Path” by Eudora Welty (1941). The core conflict represented in the story stems from the main character, Phoenix Jackson, and her the relationship between her aging and the toil it puts on her body for daily life functions. The theme of this story would be the struggles of an aging woman on an excursion. One literary technique that was used is metaphors as the author went on to say “Moving a little from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness and lightness of a pendulum in a grandfather clock” (Welty E. 1941). This compared Phoenix to an object that is slow in speed and heavily uses both kinetic energy and potential energy to keep moving left to right, displaying a lot of effort