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With a seemingly effortless style Eudora Welty demonstrates her gift of perception and imagery in the short story, "The Worn Path". Her ability to capture visual images and transform them into words on a piece of paper is nothing short of extraordinary. In this ....

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.... Jackson's inner thoughts and feelings as she makes her way through the pinewoods, brandishing her homemade cane which is fashioned from an old umbrella handle. The weather is cold; it's mid-December, and the ground is frozen. Phoenix's cane taps the frozen earth as she walks along, "like the chirping of a solitary little bird." Phoenix is very old and very small and dressed in a cotton striped dress that reaches to her shoes, which are untied, the laces dragging the ground. Her head is "tied in a red rag" above her eyes, which are faded blue with age. The scent of her hair, the color of her skin and even the pattern of the wrinkles on Phoenix ....