The Love And Devotion Of Phoenix Jackson
The Love and Devotion of Phoenix Jackson
Eudora Welty creates clues to enhance Phoenix Jackson as a round
character. The reader forms a clear mental picture of Phoenix?s appearance like her skin having, ?Numberless branching wrinkles…as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead.? Also, Welty draws a connection relating Phoenix?s hardships and triumphs to everyone?s struggles in life for the reader to sympathize and relate to. Welty elaborates the unstoppable love and devotion Phoenix Jackson holds for her grandson through her overcoming obstacles of growing senility, deteriorating health with age, and walking a treacherous journey.
Although Phoenix grows senile and might have forgotten her journeys purpose, in her heart the unyielding love for her grandson directs her feet to the medical building. The reader first discovers Phoenix?s digressing mental health when she starts to talk out loud saying, ?Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits……Keep out from under these feet, little bob-whites? (para 3). Even with Phoenix?s prevailing loss of reality the only thing real to her has been
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