Worn Path/Lottery

Both “A Worn Path,” by Eudora Welty, and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, deal with

routine and the impact following a routine can have on people. In “A Worn Path”, Old Phoenix

shows how as you get older, your capability of doing things become limited which leads you to

doing things over and over again following a set of routine. In “The Lottery”, the event that

takes place every June 27th has been normalized by the villagers.

In “ A Worn Path,” as Old Phoenix walked through the woods and got to the top of

the hill and gave a full, severe look behind her where she had come and said “Up through pines,” then “Now down through oaks,” she knew what path’s going to be ahead of her and where she was at a certain point just by looking what was behind he

Both of the stories mentioned above presented the role of routine in our everyday lives. In “The Lottery”, it showed how ritual can turn into a routine. People got comfortable to the present habit compared to what they were supposed to do. They were able to normalize

something as they’ve done it over and over. And so as in “A Worn Path”, the title of the story

r. And when she said “Now comes the trial,” referring to a log that’s laid across the creek at the foot of the hill and "Through the maze now,” as she passed through the old cotton and went into a field of dead corn, it ndicated that she’s gone through this path a lot of times, that she knew where and how things were placed in the woods as she has walked through it in a daily basis. She knew what to expect ahead and how it was like once she passed through it.

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