In the story A Worn Path by Eudora Welty is a story that represents high spirits, trust, brave, and life and death. Phoenix Jackson, from A Worn Path, has a mission/journey to go into town for her grandsons medication. She goes through many obstacles she is a very elderly women around her 80’s. The connection Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” the character Phoenix Jackson is symbolic to a Phoenix bird from mythology because they both rebirth, go on missions/journeys, and have high spirits to where they live a long time. In A Worn Path, it shows rebirth. In the story Phoenix Jackson goes into town for a medicine for her grandson. The medicine is a way her grandson rebirths, because without the medicine her grandson could die, but the medicine helps
