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A Worn Path In the short story "A Worn Path" the main character's name is Phoenix, which alludes to "the mythical bird that consumed itself in fire after five hundred years and rose renewed from its ashes.” Which relates to the main motif, death. Phoenix, the main character, is a very old woman who has a dying grandson who she goes many times to get medicine in town for him so that he can live. Every time she goes she takes a very long walk to get there, which she has traveled many times. In which the title hints the “Worn Path”. Death was shown all throughout the short story by the many things that happened to her while on her journey to get her grandson’s medicine. Even though she is very old she has been through a lot and through the many of the obstacles that she went on, like facing the man with the dog, she would not let anything get in her way because she was determined to do what she had to do. Which was to get the m