Eudora Welty "A Worn Path"

A Worn Path, is a story about an old women that goes on a journey by feet to the hospital where she can get medicine for her sick grandson. She is described as worn through life, with her deep wrinkles, and ragged clothes, it is as if her entire life she has had hardships such as these. In the woods she goes through various obstacles, and even falls on her back. A man helps her up, and against her own judgement she steals a dime that falls out of his pocked and comments "god watching me the whole time". She knows what she did was wrong, but her poverty, the gap between her means and her goals drives her to it. She finally makes it to the place where she can get the medicine, and exhausted, and worn she forgets the reason for her trip all together for a second. She snaps back to reality and is given the medicine as "charity", and also a present of a nickle which she wants to use to buy her grandson a toy. Is is obvious that is it only the two of them in her family, and that she is the sole provider for this child. This woman despite her age will go through any hurdle to help the one she loves. This story is a true expression of family, and the will, and power that love gives you to accomplish anything.