welty's a worn path

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…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.