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Conflict In “A Worn Path”
Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” is a short story about an old black woman who periodically makes a journey to town. In this story Phoenix Jackson faces many trials on her way to town. Many of the conflicts she faces seem insurmountable but her strength enables her to overcome them. Phoenix Jackson’s health, age, s ....
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.... it she spoke and said ‘that would be acceptable’. But when she went to take it there was just her hand in the air” (Welty 2). This statement implies that she is hallucinating. It could be from the strenuous journey, but it is believed that it is because she is fighting a losing battle with sanity.
The last conflict in this story is a question of which society does Phoenix live in. Where she could not have the medicine delivered to her house “Why would she have to travel all the way from the country side to the city by herself to get the medicine” (Roberts Paragraph 1). She also lives in a ....
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