Phoenix Jackson’s Comparison to a Phoenix and Determination shown in Eudora Welty’s Story “A Worn Path”

In Eudora Welty’s story, “A Worn Path,” Phoenix Jackson, and old woman, is making a trip to get some medicine for her sick grandson. The reader can easily infer that Phoenix is an elderly lady from the initial paragraph and other references to age throughout the story, but Welty only puts those descriptions and things said by Phoenix so the reader gets to know the character. The fact that she is old is just showing that she is steadfast and strong willed. Phoenix is running into obstacles and showing determination throughout the whole story and through this she is showing how she is rising above her old age, like the Phoenix that rises above the ashes. Eudora Welty’s story of Phoenix Jackson show tat even if there is something holding one back one must rise above the ashes with fierce determination just as the mythical Phoenix and Phoenix Jackson.
In the story Welty describes Phoenix as old, but that does not stop Phoenix Jackson who is so indomitable and focused, th...