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The Worn Path Eudora Welty Simply dressed in an apron made of bleached sugar sacks, Phoenix Jackson leaves home for an excursion, over mountains, through fields, and across the creek, all to get he sick grandchild medicine. The journey is not easy as she walks with a cane to shake bushes to scare out animals, gets caught up in thorns, and falls into a creek when a young hunter has to come and help her …

…she is old? I guess that is part of her anterior identity. The wrinkles and squinty eyes make them think that she is a grandmother anyway. If they were to see a small child on a bike would they call him boy? Others view identities from the outside until they know the person. They call Phoenix grandma and thought that Richard Cory was just a happy rich man. There is a story to every person.