An Analysis of Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” Just recently I read something very special which I think a lot of people would also enjoy reading themselves. It is a short story by Eudora Welty entitled “ A Worn Path.” An intriguing black woman in her nineties by the name of Phoenix Jackson sets off on a journey of life. Living ten miles away from the nearest city, Natchez, Mississippi, she goes through obstacles that show the will she has to complete her journey. Phoenix Jackson is making this journey to Natchez to get medication for her sick grandson. Before encountering the obstacles on her path to town, she address the animals like she knows them, “Out of