A Worn Path By Eudora Welty And The First Seven Years

Love Case In the stories â€Å"A Worn Path† by Eudora Welty and â€Å"The First Seven Years† by Bernard Malamud characters persevere for love. In â€Å"A Worn Path† Phoenix Jackson, an old grandmother, goes through a long journey and overcomes multiple obstacles to get medicine for her sick grandson. Phoenix perseveres through emotional and physical trials because of her love for her grandson. Likewise in the story â€Å"The First Seven Years† Sobel perseveres for seven years of unfair pay to try and marry his love, while Feld perseveres to make his daughters life better than his own. Both of these stories exemplify that humans will go to great lengths for the ones that they love. Phoenix travels a difficult path filled with many obstacles to†¦show more content†¦Phoenix puts her grandson before everything even her own life. Sobel perseveres through seven years of hard work and bad pay because of his love for Miriam. Sobel worked overtime often running the shoe store by himself while the owner, Feld, would go â€Å"home after an hour or two†(Malamud 51). Despite Sobel’s hard work he received terrible pay to the point that even the owner told him he should leave and receive better wages. â€Å"Yet his conscious bothered him for not insisting that the assistant accept better wage than he was getting, though Feld had honestly told him he could earn a handsome salary elsewhere, or maybe opened a place of his own†(Malamud 51). Sobel knew that he was being paid unfairly for the hours that he worked, but he insisted on staying because he loved Miriam. â€Å"‘For the stingy wages I sacrificed five years of my life so you could have to eat and drink and where to sleep?’ ‘Then for what’ shouted the shoemaker. ‘For Miriam’†(Malamud 53). Even after working five years to try and be accepted by Feld and marry Miriam when Feld insists that Sobel wait two more years Sobel agrees in a heartbeat. â€Å"But the next morning, when the shoemaker arrived, heavy-hearted, to open the store, he saw he needn’t come, for his assistant was already seated at the last, pounding leather for his love†(Malamud 54). No matter the struggle or wait if it was for Miriam SobelShow MoreRelatedEudora Welty a Worn Path12166 Words   |  49 PagesA Worn Path by Eudora Welty Copyright Notice  ©1998−2002;  ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design ® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license.  ©2007 eNotes.com LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, Web distribution or information storageRead MoreEudora Welty a Worn Path12173 Words   |  49 PagesA Worn Path by Eudora Welty Copyright Notice  ©1998−2002;  ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design ® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license.  ©2007 eNotes.com LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, Web distribution or information storageRead MoreAnalysis Of Jack London And Eudora Welty s A Fire And A Worn Path 1406 Words   |  6 Pagesstories To Build a Fire and A Worn Path, Jack London and Eudora Welty tell the stories of two protagonists going on arduous journeys during the winter. Phoenix Jackson, the protagonist of A Worn Path, is an elderly lady hardened by the trials of life as a black woman living in the Southern United States, prior to the Civil Rights Era. She is surprisingly limber, resilient, and healthy for her age and h as assumed the responsibility of caring for her sick seven- year- old grandson. She diligently providesRead MoreObligations1410 Words   |  6 Pagesfor my life, but yet for the life of my younger sisters. I knew that it was my responsibility to make sure that they were taken care of in every way possible. During my senior year in high school I was living with my father and two of my younger sisters. One of my sisters was seven years old, Lindsey, and the other was two years old, Neah. My father worked from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m., Monday through Friday. He had to work two jobs to make sure that we were taken care of financially. My obligation was