a worn path

This story was interesting and almost inspirational in a way because it intertwines myth and legend. It shows us an example of how someone could be so selfless and care about someone else so much the way Phoenix did for her grandson. How a long journey full of hardships, dealing with people with no sympathy (like the man who told her that colored people love to go to town to see Santa Claus) and sometimes wanting to give up when things get rough, but sticking through it. The color of her skin, her age and physical condition are obviously working against her in this era in Mississippi. The walk she takes down this path will go on for as long as she lives, because her grandson is sick, and the way she treats him she hopes will carry on for him to do onto others in the future.

a good man is hard to find.

First of all, beyond the story, the title is a TRUE STORY. haha. Anyway, this story focuses on the grandmother's perspective, a selfish lady, who wants to live and die "like a lady." Because of her, her son Baily ends up in a ditch on this trip to Tennesee, and she and her family encounter the "misfit." They are all shot, and at her last moment, she wants to become a woman of wisdom and sincerity, and try and talk her way out of being killed, but it's too late. Only at the last moment of her life after her whole family has been killed does she want to become a good woman. My favorite part is the ending when the misfit says “she would of been a good woman . . . if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”