How would you summarily characterize the hunter and any other characters you think are key? Again, where is your textual support?.How would you summarily characterize Phoenix? What key adjectives and adverbs would you use? Where is your textual support?.Once students are back together as a group, facilitate a discussion that advances their description to analysis of characterization’s impact by asking such questions as: After class discussion, they will complete column 4. They should fill out columns 1–3 for now. You might start by doing the first few paragraphs together to model the process and then let students finish the work with their groups. Characterization), students prepare in small groups for class-wide discussion of characterization in the story by focusing on and fleshing out Welty’s details and their impact on meaning. With the help of a graphic organizer ( Worksheet 1. Have students describe and analyze Welty’s use of characterization for her main character Phoenix. C-SPAN's video of " The Life of Eudora Welty" shows her neice, Mary Alice Welty White, and the Director of Eudora Welty House, Bridget Edwards, discussing aspects of this author's life and writing process from the author's house.
In praise of the author, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter once wrote, “There is no blurring at the edges, but evidences of an active and disciplined imagination working firmly in a strong line of continuity, the waking faculty of daylight reason recollecting and recording the crazy logic of the dream.” To access critical readings of and biographical information on Welty and her work, consult the Mississippi Writers' entry on Welty which provides information on her Mississippi roots and serves as contextual background for her stories and novels. As such, her story depicts the Depression in the United States from the vantage point of a victim insufficiently represented in art-though a victim who, like the mythological phoenix her name evokes, resists annihilation, Phoenix transcends the abuse she experiences. In the course of a single day, Welty’s character, Phoenix, encounters multiple obstacles in the form of various white people whose treatment of her ranges from patronizing to insensitive. The story’s protagonist, Phoenix Jackson, is an aged, impoverished, rural African American woman in pursuit of medicine for her grandson. This lesson invites students to describe and analyze Welty’s use of characterization and setting to communicate the struggle and reward of that journey for Phoenix Jackson-poor, black, and elderly-during the Great Depression. It opens a complex landscape that evokes both the character’s passage and others’ larger pilgrimages.
The short story “A Worn Path” is marked by intense and dramatic imagery that illuminates one character’s difficult and triumphant journey through a single day.
Her art explores the impact of place on the life of the individual depending on race, gender, and economic status, as well as the reverse influence of the individual character on environment. In stories, novels, and photography, the Pulitzer Prize winner was especially interested in the relationship of place to character. Carried off we might be in spirit, and should be, when we are reading or writing something good but it is the sense of place going with us still that is the ball of golden thread to carry us there and back and in every sense of the word to bring us home."Įudora Welty, whose life spanned most of the 20th century, represented the world of the deep American South in multiple genres. "Sense of place gives equilibrium extended, it is sense of direction too.
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