"A Worn Path" Eudora Welty (1941):
This story is about an old woman who makes a walking journey to her nearby town to get medicine for her granson. She encounters many obsticles on the way has has an encounter with a mangy cur dog that almost ends her relentless march but she perseveres and gets to the hospital only to forget why she is even there. This is a story that makes you think throughout that love is the driving force for the worn path,but the reasons for getting the medicine are that her grandson had eaten lye and was suffering from chemical burns to his throat. Near the end of the story the old woman says "I not going to forget him again." So the question is it love or guilt that brings the old woman, guilt for forgetting to put the lye away, guilt for forgetting the boy was loose and able to get the lye, maybe this is what I thought after the second reading.
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This sounds like a good story. I try to keep myself away from "sad" emotional storys though because I end up angry and crying. After having my 2 children I seem to wear my heart on my sleeve and it is not always very helpful in things. It is nice to know that people are able to read these stories though, it makes me jealous because they are the stories that I like the most.
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