A Worn Path

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English

 

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Teresa S

 

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September 12, 2015

 

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The character of Phoenix embodies the myth of the phoenix spiritually. Phoenix Jackson resembles the bird that has “brilliant scarlet and gold plumage” in Welty’s own vivid description of her. She writes that Phoenix has “a golden color ran underneath [her skin] and the two knobs of her cheeks were illumined by a yellow burning under dark…” (Welty 1)...
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The woman’s allusion to the phoenix is also established through frequent allusions to birds. She writes of pinecones that drop “as light as feathers” (1). She compares the way Old Phoenix picks up a nickel to “lifting an egg from under a sitting hen” (6). Also, as Old Phoenix steals the nickel, a bird flies by and she experiences this as a symbol of God’s presence...
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