The Differences in writing in Eudora Welty’s “A Worn Path” a

Phoenix, the central character in Welty’s “A Worn Path”, is described from the third person. The details in this story are wonderful, and the reader learns so much from them. Phoenix, whose “skin had a pattern all its own of numberless branching wrinkles” is old. Her “long apron of bleached sugar sacks” gives the clue that she is probably poor because she made her apron from sacking material. The reader understands Phoenix from the external, like what she looks like, where she went and what she did.

Alice Walker’s story, “Everyday Use”, is written in the first person. Mama, the central character, describes the

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This is interaction between white people and black people.

There is also racial tension in “Everyday Use” when Dee arrives with her boyfriend and uses complicated African names for them both. “How old are you, Granny?” he says. Neither Dee nor Asalamalakin come off as authentic. Alice Walker’s character, Mama, lets the reader know many facts and observations and as a result it is easier to get under their skin and identify with them. The interaction of Dee, Mama, Maggie and Asalamalakim gives richness to the story. As if that was the only thing you could do with quilts. It is this personal experience of living it rather than just seeing it that makes Walker’s characters most believable. It is not known at first if he is concerned or antagonistic. This indirect criticism by the author would not be possible for a white writer to easily present. Welty’s character Phoenix is presented in a picture the reader views. setting, “I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. When Mama asks Dee what she would do with the quilts she wants to take from them, Dee says she would “ Hang them. In contrast, Mama (of Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”) just tells the reader what she thinks.

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