Themes Of A Worn Path By Eudora Welty

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Nancy Wood Professor LaBossiere Enc 1102 20 Nov 2015 A Worn Path By Eudora Welty A Worn Path is a short story that incorporates the themes of love and determination. The story reveals in its theme the love an old Negro woman had for her sick grandson, and the determination she had to complete the task she set for herself. The title itself suggests that the path taken many times which suggests determination. The author Eudora Welty grew up in the south, and witnessed the hard lives the people of color faced during the depression, and the determination they had was the theme of many of her stories. “Eudora Welty is deeply immersed in the culture and history of the South. Though raised in an upper-middle-class white family, she traveled extensively throughout the South during the Depression…” (Moss and Wilson, Vol 1, p1, 1997). Since Welty sympathized with the trials these poor people faced and continued to write about their perseverance, she faced adverse effects of critics. “During the early decades of her career, she was respected by fellow writers but often dismissed by critics as an oversensitive “feminine” writer” …show more content…

Determined to reach her intended goal, holds conversations along the way with trees, animals and all elements designed to frighten the frail. “…it is also possible that Welty is highlighting the struggles that many (if not all) African Americans at the time the story was published (1941) encountered while trying to make some progress in their lives,” (McManus, 2015, p1). Along the way, she approached a hill and remarked to herself how it felt like she had chains on her feet to slow her down and the hill was telling her to turn back and not attempt the journey, still she forged ahead. When the top of the hill though tired and tearful she looked down at the path below as if to say I defeated you hill even though she knew her largest feat was still

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