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The social obstacles that hinder her on her journey are perhaps the most difficult embarrassing to overcome. One of these obstacles is that Phoenix Jackson lives a life of extreme deprivation. She has no money and no way of getting money either. She is reluctant to except charity but knows that is the only way she knows how to survive. She takes a nickel from the hunter in the field and she also accepts money from the nurse at the clinic. Another social obstacle is that she is illiterate. This makes it very difficult and uncomfortable at the clinic because she does not know how to read the prescription of the medication. Instead she has to look for a gold sign of the doctor's office that helps her recognize the right medicine. The third social hindrance is her old age. People she comes across on her journey are very haughty towards her and have no admiration for her. The hunter in the field mocks her by pointing a gun to her and laughs at her. The nurse's attendant scorns her because she does not feel comfortable talking in the office. All these social obstacles are as a result of her race. T
The Phoenix's mind right now is very tired because she used all of her strength. When her grandson does realize what his grandmother has done for him it may be too late. She is the one who will last and return down the worn path. She moves instinctively, gaily, toward what love demands. Like a phoenix bird that is dead will rise up again, Phoenix goes to a store to buy her grandson a toy with the money that she has attain during her path. (Jones 3) Her long journey shows that all her struggles, all her fears, even her petty theft of a nickel from a hunter, were endured almost gaily because she was filled with a love which would cause rejuvenation at the end of the journey. She doesn't even think for a second to go and buy herself something to eat something to sustain her on the long and cold walk home. The strength that she emits toward her grandson is the power that nourishes his life. She will probably be dead by then so he will never be able to be thankful for what she has done. She has been pushing herself so hard for so long that she no longer remembers why she must get to the city, but only that she must somehow make her way to the doctor's office. he main reason that Miss Welty chose a Negro seems to be that only a relatively simple, uncivilized individual is worthy of representing the powerful force that inspires such love as hers for her grandchild. She is on the brink of collapse when she reaches the doctor's office and the only thought that fills her mind is that she has made it. When the attendant in the doctor's office asks her why she has come, Phoenix completely blanks out. She does not know if her son is dead or not but she knows that she still have to get the medicine just in case. Her love and devotion support her and give her an endless source of almost supernatural strength.
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