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A Worn Path (Short Story)

  • Type: Short Story
  • Length: 12 pages

A Worn Path is a 1941 short story by Pulitzer Prize winning author Eudora Welty. - AsNotedIn

It was December - a bright frozen day in the early morning. Far out in the country there was an old Negro woman with her head tied in a red rag, coming along a path through the pinewoods. Her name was Phoenix Jackson. She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness and lightness of a pendulum in a grandfather clock. She carried a thin, small cane made from an umbrella, and with this she kept tapping the frozen earth in front of her. This made a grave and persistent noise in the still air that seemed meditative, like the chirping of a solitary little bird. Eudora Welty, A Worn Path




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Y/M/D Association Description Place Locale Food Event
1941/02/00 Eudora Welty Author "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty is published in the Atlantic Monthly, vol 167, no 2.
1941/02/00 The Atlantic Monthly Publisher "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty is published in the Atlantic Monthly, vol 167, no 2.

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Particulars for A Worn Path (Short Story):
Narrative Arts Fiction prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Narrative Arts Narrative an account of connected events
Narrative Arts Prose ordinary written language
Art Type Short Story short form narrative fiction

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Original Language: English



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