A Worn Path

• Written by Eudora Welty

• An African American woman named Phoenix Jackson, walks through the woods into town to pick of medicine for her grandson that accidentally swallowed lye a few years before. Her grandson's throat never heals completely and sometimes swells up so she makes the trip to the clinic whenever needed. On her trip she runs into many difficulties like a dog, and she tries to hit it with a cane but misses and tumbles into a ditch where she is saved by a hunter, and steals a nickle from him. He puts a gun to her head but loses interest when she isn't scared. When she gets to the clinic the nurse treats her in a way she doesn't like but that doesn't stop her from getting the medicine needed for her grandson.