A Worn Path Analysis

Authors use specific point of views to change the experience the reader has with the story; first person, third person limited, and third person objective provide audiences with the perspective the author feels necessary. Everyday Use, A Worn Path, and Hills Like White Elephants each represents a point of view. The story "Everyday Use" is written in first person. In "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, the reader is introduced to Maggie, the youngest daughter, from Mamas point of view. As the story goes on Mamas older child, Dee, comes home with her new husband. After arguing with her oldest daughter Dee and watching her leave Mama and her daughter Maggie sit on the porch and watch the day go on. First person point of view is a set of words or

In "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty an old negro woman named Phoenix walks down a worn to a clinic to get medicine for her ill grandchild. Along the way, Phoenix meets many things including a farmer. Third person limited is when the narrator is limited to one character and tells the thoughts and feelings of only one character. "She could not let her dress be torn now" (Welty 225) This shows the reader that A Worn Path is in third person limited because the reader hears the thoughts of Phoenix, but is not seeing things through her eyes because the author uses the word she instead of me or I. "She shut her eyes, reached out her hand, and touched a sleeve. She found a coat and inside that an emptiness, cold as ice." (Welty 225) This example tells the reader what Phoenix is doing, thinking, and feeling, and third person limited only gives what one character is thinking, doing, and feeling. So because the reader learned those three things the reader can assume A Worn Path is in third person limited. Third person limited is not the only type of third person because there is also third person

In "Hills Like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, the reader meets a man and women at a train station bar. There they are arguing whether or not to have an abortion while waiting for the train to arrive. Third person objective does not reveal any character 's thoughts or feelings, and only the character 's dialogue and actions are narrated. "Yes," said the girl. "Everything tastes of licorice. Especially all the things you 've waited so long for, like absinthe." (Hemingway 279) This does not tell the reader any of the girls ' thoughts but only shows what she does and says. Third person objective only gives what is said and done telling the reader that this story is third person objective. "They sat down at the table and the girl looked across at the hills on the dry side of the of the valley and the man looked at her and at the table." (Hemingway 281) The author only tells the reader what is being done, and the author does not give away any of the thoughts or feelings associated with the two