Eudora Alice Welty
April 13, 1909 (Jackson, Mississippi) - July 23, 2001
Family Life
April 13, 1909 (Jackson, Mississippi) - July 23, 2001
Family Life
- Loving family
- Love for all instruments
- Father
- 2 younger brothers
- University of Wisconsin and Columbia University
- Work
- Work Projects Administration(mid 1930’s)
- observe many varieties of rural life in her native stateSociety of the Time (1941)
- World War II
- Great Depression
- Segregation
- She was employed by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) to travel throughout Mississippi writing newspaper copy and taking photographs a job that entitled her to observe many varieties of rural life in her native state. A Worn Path" is considered one of Welty's most distinguished and frequently studied works of short fiction. Deceptively simple in tone and scope, the story is structured upon a journey motif that incorporates a rich texture of symbolic meaning. According to Alfred Appel, "'A Worn Path' passes far beyond its regionalism because of its remarkable fusion of various elements of myth and legend, which invest the story with a religious meaning that can be universally felt."