Phoenix versus Phoenix Are They One in the Same? "A Worn Path" "was first published in Atlantic Monthly in 1941, and soon afterward was included in a book entitled The Wide Net and Other Stories. In an interview with Atlantic Monthly the author, Eudora Wetly "said that she was inspired to write the story after seeing an old African-American woman walking alone across the Southern landscape" (Gale Research). "Unlike many of Eudora Welty's stories, "A Worn …showed first 75 words of 1325 total…

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