I think I signal this, because the end of the story has been reached before old Phoenix gets home again: she simply starts back. It is the part of the journey, and of the story, that can now go without saying. But it is not the question itself that has struck me as much as the idea, almost without exception implied in the asking, that for Phoenix's grandson to be dead would somehow make the story "better. It doesn't affect the outcome of the story or its meaning from start to finish. Among her other works are The Shoe Bird, Losing Battles, and One Time, One Place. I could also say that I did not make him up in order to let him play a trick on Phoenix. But you would make the trip anyway, wouldn't you? The journal"s broad focus creates juxtapositions and conceptual connections that offer new grounds for theoretical debate.
Like Phoenix, you work all your life to find your way, through all the obstructions and the false appearances and the upsets you may have brought on yourself, to reach a meaning-using inventions of your imagination, perhaps helped out by your dreams and bits of good luck. Once she reaches her destination a nurse recognizes her and we get the first mention of Phoenix Jacksons grandson. I wondered if it might clarify some- thing, for both the questioners and myself, if I set down a general reply to the question that comes to me most often in the mail, from both students and their teachers, after some classroom discussion. I had not meant to mystify readers by withholding any fact; it is not a writer's business to tease. But who knows this is just a fan theory at the end of the day.
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Her victory-old Phoenix's-is when she sees the diploma in the doctor's office, when she finds "nailed up on the wall the document that had been stamped with the gold seal and framed in the gold frame, which matched the dream that was hung up in her head. According to the evidence laid out there are three main reasons we people believe this. . Welty's essay, derived from the most popular literary question asked of her by readers and students, followed by her much-anthologized classic story "A Worn Path" from which the question arises. There are many stories that have absent characters in them. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for.
But it is the journey, the going of the errand, that is the story, and the question is not whether the grandchild is in reality alive or dead. I had not meant to mystify readers by withholding any fact; it is not a writer's business to tease. The possibility that she would keep on even if he were dead is there in her devotion and its single-minded, single-track errand. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. A rare offprint, and the only signed copy we have seen. They vouch for the authenticity of all items offered for sale.
A rare offprint, and the only signed copy we have seen. What gives any such content to "A Worn Path" is not its circumstances but its subject: the deep-grained habit of love. Instances where so had to crawl under barbed wire and cross a creek with the bridge as a log. We email tracking information for all domestic shipments. The real dramatic force of a story depends on the strength of the emo- tion that has set it going. If the child no longer lived, the truth would persist in the "wornness" of the path. Welty's essay, derived from the most popular literary question asked of her by readers and students, followed by her much-anthologized classic story "A Worn Path" from which the question arises.
To the question "Is the grandson really dead? But my best answer would be: "Phoenix is alive. Seller Inventory 72505 Members of these associations are committed to maintaining the highest standards. The possibility that she would keep on even if he were dead is there in her devotion and its single-minded, single-track errand. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unlessyou have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and youmay use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. That sight of her made me write the story. Alternate shipping available by request. She was walking; I saw her, at middle distance, in a winter country landscape, and watched her slowly make her way across my line of vision.
If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. As the reader, you are free to think as you like, of course: the story invites you to believe that no matter what happens, Phoenix, for as long as she is able to walk and can hold to her purpose, will make her journey. He going to last. Certaintly the artistic truth, which should be good enough for the fact, lies in Phoenix's own answer to that question. JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. Critical Inquiry 1 1 :219-221.
Finally, and probably the best evidence we have that the grandson is dead is the fact that on her journey to get the medicine she imagines a boy giving her a cake after crossing a stream. First Edition In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. He going to last. In the end, these implications too become facts, in the larger, fictional sense. Disregard this field Vertigo Comics, an imprint of DC Comics, is being retired in 2020 after a 27 year run of groundbreaking comics.