The Long Road Eudora Welty’s short story “A Worn Path” is about a lonely, elderly colored woman and her journey to get to town. The main character fights with herself and nature in her battle to get into town. The reason why Welty’s main character is so desperate to make it to and from town is to pick up medicine for a sick grandchild. However, this story expands by use of different literary …showed first 75 words of 488 total…

…showed last 75 words of 488 total…about more than an old Negro lady trying to get medicine for her grandson. It is about the struggle that all Negroes have had to make in the United States. That struggle is prejudices and racism that the Negroes had to put up with to get their freedom. Despite the hurt and pain inflicted upon them, the Negroes kept walking. Phoenix is doing the same, by walking the worn path to help her own kind.