A Worn Path

The whole point of this story is to show the struggles and journeys people go through. Phoenix is an older woman who travels down into town to get her grandson's medication. But we do not find that out until the end of the story. In the beginning, I got the feeling that Phoenix is mentally disabled. We learn of how she sees people (ghosts) in her path and she talks to them. I became really confused as to if she really even talks to a real person. She had to climb down a large hill in to the city. Phoenix seems very confused and absent minded when she enters into the building. The structure of the story is that of a journey and making it to the end. Phoenix encounters many obstacles but she never gives up. SHe is a poor woman and does not have much. But, she never gives up and emcompasses all the endeavors and makes it to the medicine.