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A Worn Path "A Worn Path" is a short story that was written by Eudora Weltey. This story was about a little old black lady named Phoenix Jackson who lived way back in the piney woods with her grandson. And every time he ran out of his medication, she would walk a long journey to the nearest town to the clinic to get it for him. There are different types of symbolism portrayed in this story, one of which would be phoenix bird symbolism. There weren’t many examples of this type of symbolism in the story but one was when she sees in the horizon what a