A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

Sometimes our life is like an obstacle course, comprising of obstacles in which we have to overcome. Eudora Welty's short article "A Worn Path" takes location on a "bright, iced day" in December.

The number of a vintage Negro woman—Phoenix Jackson—emerges. She comprises labor, but most of all she comprises determination. As she makes her way in the direction of village in a route she appears to have taken numerous times before, she has to overwhelm numerous obstacles. Every move she makes appears to be a slow, stepwise move in the direction of her goal. The ...