William T. Atkin III Instructor: Helen C. Peemoeller COM 131 20 April 1999 Phoenix Rises From the Ashes When asked by a white hunter “ Doesn’t the gun scare you?” while having it pointed at her, Phoenix Jackson, of Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path”, replies “No, sir. I seen plenty go off closer by, in my day, and for less than what I done,” This is an example of how the protagonist deals with another of her …
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…untied shoe. At the clinic she manages to push the attendant to 500% of her original offering. Subsequently she resolves to purchase her grandson a paper windmill with the two nickel profit she made entering town. These conflicts she faces only reflect the spirit shining from the character of Phoenix Jackson. Bibliography Welty, Eudora . “A Worn Path.” Literature an Introduction to reading and Writing . Ed. Edgar V. Roberts, Henry E, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1998. 132-37.