The point of
view used in Welty's "" is third-person narrator/ limited omniscient. With regard to
the character of Phoenix, the point of view is omniscient as the narrator knows her thoughts and
feelings in part of the story.
The significance of the title is certainly
heightened as the reader considers the point of view of Welty's narrative; the reader is privy
to Phoenix's feelings all along her "worn path." Before she reaches this path and
after she leaves it when arriving in Natchez, the point of view is third-person
limited.
Theof the story is clearly in third-person narration as the weather
is described and Phoenix Jackson is characterized in much the same matter-of-fact
manner:
Her name was Phoenix Jackson. She was very old
and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows. . . Her eyes were blue with age. Her
skin had a pattern of her own of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree
stood...
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