Katherine Anne Porter, who wrote the book's Introduction, said: With a few lines she draws the gesture of a deaf-mute, the windblown skirts of a Negro woman in the fields, the bewilderment of a child in the sickroom of an old people's asylum-and she has told more than many an author might tell in a novel of six hundred pages". Marianne Hauser, reviewing the book for The New York Times on November 18, 1941, praises "the author's fanatic love of people. Welty writes "A Worn Path" to show the reader that even though they are not an epic hero they can still have dignity in their life.
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Full of challenges that she had to overcome while still keeping her dignity. One of the finest pieces in the collection is titled " A Worn Path." Welty's skill as a writer perhaps reaches its finest point with this story of an aging woman who faces her greatest obstacle, the journey of life as she tries to cope with the grief from the death of her grandson she goes through a journey comparable to a Greek epic.
The stories subtly combine myth and reality to create portraits of odd, but undeniable, beauty. Welty, though, looks past race, not overtly focusing on the subject, and sees Mississippi as what it is. In these stories, Welty looks at the state of Mississippi through the eyes of its inhabitants, the common people, both black and white, and presents a realistic view of the racial relations that existed at the time. A Curtain of Green was the first collection of short stories written by Eudora Welty.