Question

Read the excerpt from "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty.

The path ran up a hill. “Seem like there is chains about my feet, time I get this far,” she said, in the voice of argument old people keep to use with themselves. “Something always take a hold of me on this hill—pleads I should stay.”

What does the line “Seem like there is chains about my feet” suggest?

Answers:
1. Phoenix is feeling tired and sluggish from climbing up the hill.

2. The old woman is stumbling over her feet as she tries to climb up the hill.

3. Phoenix recalls being chained when she was enslaved before the Civil War.

4. The path is covered with brush and debris, making it difficult for Phoenix to climb it.

Answer 1

Answer: Phoenix is feeling tired and sluggish from climbing up the hill.

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Answer 2

"A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty is a short story about an elderly African American woman who undertakes a familiar journey on a road in a rural area to acquire medicine for her grandson.The correct option is A:-Phoenix is feeling tired and sluggish from climbing up the hill.

This represents how easy it was for white men to enforce black men out of their homes and enslave them.

What does the line “Seem like there are chains about my feet” suggest?

It is explained by Welty that Phoenix went into the ditch very easily with much force when she says, “Over she went in the ditch, like a little puff of milkweed.”

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