In the journey of life, there are many difficulties that have to be

overcome. To overcome these problems, determination and bravery are

required. Phoenix Jackson is an elderly Negro woman who wears a “red rag

on her hair” (Welty 150). She wears a long, striped dress and a long apron made

out of “sugar sacks” (Welty 150). She carries a cane made out of an old umbrella,

and her eyes are “blue with age” (Welty 150). Her skin is full of wrinkles, and her

cheeks are “illuminated by a yellow burning under the dark” (Welty 150). Under

Phoenix’s rag, “her hair came down on her neck in the frailest of ringlets, still

black with an copper like odor”(Welty 151). Phoenix is making a journey on the

“Natchez Trace” (Welty 154) in December to get medicine for her sick grandson.

Eudora Welty shows Phoenix Jackson in “A Worn Path” to be determined, brave

Phoenix Jackson is a determined woman. Every year, Phoenix has to take a trip in the winter to get her grandson’s medicine. She knows her grandson needs his medicine, and she will get it at any cost to herself. At Phoenix’s age, she should not go out in t

Phoenix Jackson is a brave woman. She is brave to go across the foot-log at the bottom of the hill. There is a chance that Phoenix will not make it across this log, but she attempts it. Phoenix put her right foot out, then “she mounted the log and shut her eyes. Lifting her skirt, leveling her cane fiercely before her, like a festival figure in some parade, she began to march across. Then “she opened her eyes and was safe on the other side” (Welty 151). Phoenix shows bravery with her confrontation with the scarecrow in the maze. She is on private property, but she is brave enough to proceed across it. She sees something “tall, black and skinny there, moving before her. At first she took it for a man” (Welty 151). Phoenix touches it and realizes it is a scarecrow. Phoenix shows bravery with the hunter’s dogs. The dogs are easily as big as she, but she stands up to them. Phoenix also shows bravery when the hunter points the gun at her. The hunter asks her if she is afraid of the gun. Phoenix replies with, “’No, sir. I seen plenty go off closer by, in my day and for less that what I done’” (Welty 153). Although Phoenix has had some scary, frightening encounters, she shows bravery in each predicament that has happened.

grandson will not survive without his medicine. The grandson has no one else besides Phoenix. Of the people Phoenix meets, nobody is willing to go

his weather, but she is determined to go out in the cold. In the journey, Phoenix encounters a bush. She is determined to pass by the bush, at the bottom of a hill, which he

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