This is a journey which she has taken before, and now "the time come around" she must travel it again. ... Her skin has a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles" are indications of Phoenix Jackson's old age. ... So the time come around, and I go on another trip for the soothing medicine." ...
This is a journey, which she has taken before, and now "the time come around" she must travel it again. ... Her skin has a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles" are indications of Phoenix Jackson's old age. ... So the time come around, and I go on another trip for the soothing medicine." ...
She is an old woman with aged eyes that are of barely any use and skin that has, "numberless branching wrinkles" (Welty 276). ... As she travels up a hill it, "Seems that there are chains about my feet, time I get this far something always takes hold of me on this hill. ...
