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I plan on editing A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

Symbolism
The short story, "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, follows an older lady by the name of Ms. Phoenix through a journey that showcases her burdens and her heart. The setting of Christmas time sets a religious tone within the story early on. Ms. Phoenix follows a journey that mirrors the journey of Jesus all the way to the cross. she falls due to her burden of old age as though Jesus fell due to the cross on his back. Ms. Phoenix encounters a kind woman who smelled "like the red roses in hot summer". These roses are a symbol mirroring Jesus in the flesh as a martyr, this woman stopped to do anything to help Ms.Phoenix with her journey. She enters the store and notices a document nailed on to the wall, then was humiliated and stripped of her dignity, mirroring moments leading up to the death of Christ. She set upon this journey not in selfishness but in selflessness. She wanted to help her grandson much like Jesus endured pain and died for our sins.

Setting
Welty’s love for photography and nature shine through her descriptive way of creating the setting of a of Natchez trace forest. Through her journey Ms. Phoenix uses nature to tell time and location. She proves its late morning by "mourning dove—it was not too late for him." she continues her path through a dead corn field that reiterates the setting of December. Welty used nature to describe the face of Ms. Phoenix showing how she belongs to the country not in the city "Her skin had a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead." believed to be set in the 1940's segregation was abundant, Ms. Phoenix was likely a former slave hoping for a better life for her grandson and going through anything to get it.