The main character in "A Worn Path" is the elderly Negro lady Phoenix. The name Phoenix fits this elderly lady like a glove because she is trying to rise above her health conditions to make it into town. For that a Phoenix is a mythological creature that dies in fire,

As Phoenix was on her journey, she thought she had seen a ghost. However, It was a scarecrow she was looking at. True it might just be a scarecrow she is looking at, but that scarecrow has a deeper literary meaning to it than that. For that her ancestors had worked the plantation fields for long laborious hours with little food for themselves. By malnutrition, their cheeks had been known to sink into their faces. The slaves ultimately look like scarecrows. So in a way, she really did see a ghost by looking at the scarecrow. Phoenix saw the ghosts of her past.

The title "A Worn Path" is itself an allusion made by Welty. The worn path in the story is the path that Phoenix has to walk to get into town. However, we the readers should als

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