Old Paths In the story, A Worn Path, Eudora Welty portrays the hardship that a black elderly woman faces in the early nineteen hundreds. The story is based around an elderly woman named Phoenix Jackson. It deals with her long travel to the town store and the great ordeal she faces when coming along to meet a young white hunter in the woods. It may look as if this hunter has no real compassion for …showed first 75 words of 971 total…

…showed last 75 words of 971 total…any obstacle in life. Phoenix Jackson learned this the hard way. The most important thing we must all learn is that with age comes superior wisdom. Phoenix Jackson may come off as a thief, but after reading the entire story, it is obvious that she is not. Phoenix also comes off as being weak, but what she lacks in physical strength she is made up in wit. In the end Phoenix will reach her destination.