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4 November 2012 Society’s Image reflected by character’s change in Actions As you begin reading the short story “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty, the word weirdness comes right through your mind. You see a black women living in a society where she gets help, where she gets laugh at, and even a society where she gets almost killed. Those contradictions can only make you think that the society is outlandish and that it has a form of discrepancy. For the story occurring in the mid 19’s, is the society normal or Eudora Welty clearly over exaggerated on the way people were acting? As a matter of fact, in the short story, written by Eudora Welty, the society is not normal, and presents an image of dishonesty because some people are totally generous towards the protagonist of the story, Phoenix Jackson, but then they become totally mean. First of all, throughout the short story, Phoenix Jackson gets treated properly by some people in the society, even white people. The first example of this is when we first see the white hunter when Phoenix Jackson walks in the wood.“ He lifted her up, gave her a swing in the air, and set her down. “Anything broken, Granny?” ’’(Page 4). This passage of the story clearly show the readers that there are nice people in the society, because when someone is on the floor and you help this person, you are really courteous. On top of that, at the end of her journey, we can clearly see that Phoenix Jackson gets treated properly by the nurse. For example, “Phoenix rose carefully and held out her hand. She received the nickel and then fished the other nickel out of her pocket and laid it beside the new one.”(Page 8). At this time of the story, the nurse gives a nickel to Phoenix because it is Christmas time, which shows again that some people in the society are nice to the protagonist Phoenix Jackson, even