In “A Warn Path” by Eudora Welty, symbolism is the word that comes to mind throughout the story. From the very first paragraph we can note how the author makes reference to lightness and dark, and how she “walked slowly in the dark pine shadows” in my opinion making reference to how she was perceived in society and the big “shadows” (The white world) surrounding her frail body. She wore a “Striped dress” again Black and White symbolic of her longing to be a part of the white world. Her “Path” and the obstacles she is faced with such as the wild animals, the bushes thorns, her dreams are perhaps symbolic of her struggle to make her way into the world of the whites and to make it known that no obstacle can stop her from following her path.
