At first, the plot complexity of Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" is not clear. The main character is Phoenix Jackson, an old, poor and frail black woman; the story seems to be no more than a record of her walk to Natchez through the woods from her rural home. By the story end, however, the plot is clear: It presents the brave attempts of a courageous, valiant woman to carry on normally despite overwhelming negative forces. It is the gap between her determination and the odds against her that gives the story its impact. The powers she opposes in the story are environment, poverty and old age.
             Environmental conditions on the story "A Worn Path" are not only compelled elders but also compelled young. On the Journey to the Natchez there are lots of difficulties for instance thorny bushes, ditches, dogs, bridge, Barbed wires and strong wind. But those difficulties do not lose her motivation even though Phoenix is an old woman. In the story "Worn Path" the main character Phoenix mentioned this fact as "Out of my wall, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons and wild animals! ... Keep out from under these feet, little bobwhites ... Keep the big wild hogs out of my path. Don't let none of those come running my direction. I got a long way." Even though she is an old woman, she does not afraid of environment and keep going to her way.
             The second power she opposes in the story is her poverty. Her poverty both affects her journey and her particular life. Because of being poor she have to make a long journey to find her grandson a medicine. Her clothes, her health, her grandson's health are also because of poverty.
             In the short story "A Worn Path" her clothes described as " She wore a dark stripped dress reaching down to her shoe tops and an equally long apron of bleached sugar sacks, with a full pocket: all neat and tidy, but every time she took a step she might...