At this instance the main character is tired from her long journey which is expressed through the "sweat of her face, the wrinkles in her face shone like a bright net"(348). ... After getting caught up in a thorny bush the character observes the time passing: "Sun so high! The time getting all gone here"(345). ... The time come around"(347). Both passages serve to illustrate the not only the passing of time but also the nearing of this time to a final outcome which in the mythical sense would be the Phoenix's death. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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." ...

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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." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

With eyes that are "blue with age", "numberless branching wrinkles", and with a cane that Phoenix "kept tapping the frozen earth in front of her" with, we know that Phoenix is old, with failing eyesight. ... Every time she completes this journey she is refueled and becomes ready for the next journey. ...

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Her skin is full of wrinkles, and her cheeks are "illuminated by a yellow burning under the dark" (Welty 150). ... Phoenix knows that she has stolen from the hunter, and she tells him, ""God watching me the whole time. ...

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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. ...

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The short story "A Worn Path" displays a classic example of the Christ like figure, willing to give it all up for another. This work of interpretive literature makes the reader fill in the blanks of whether or not grandma Phoenix's grandson will recover, whether grandma Phoenix will return home saf...

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• Grade Level: High School