"A worn path" is the story of a senior African-American Eudora Welty's ritual journey. Its main purpose is to draw out from the symbol of the journey, as well as meetings of the Negro women in her journey. According to the critics Welty's use of myth, language and the symbol in the deceptively simple story are praised. Issues regarding the race often show the Welty's fiction that is present in most of her novels in Mississippi during the 1940's to 1950's. Brief encounters of Phoenix on her journey to shape the observation of most Southern whites throughout ...