Hours later, I'm re-awoken by my dad, it's that dreaded time. Every year we drive two and a half hours to spend "quality time " with the family my father says "we never see ". ... Seriously, who doesn't like to see Andrew Jackson's wrinkly face every time they open a card? ...
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. ...
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. ...
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...
