calls her Sunday best. The medicine Phoenix get for the grandson is given to her from charity. Phoenix acquires 10 cents from begging and theft to buy a paper wind mill. The
Financial trouble makes it so Phoenix can’t afford the advanced medical care for her grandson. Closely connected to her poverty is the way through the woods which during her walk seem an almost active opponent. Welty lets you know that its December and everything is frosted over on the ground. When Phoenix starts her trip into town through the woods Welty starts out with this sentence “Out of my way, all you foxes, owls, beetles, jack rabbits, coons, and wild animals!..” (paragraph 3) right away from reading that you know there are many dangers that are going to be on this trip. Phoenix now has to go through thorn bushes with out getting scratched, not long after that she’s trying to go over a frosted log while her eyes are closed with out falling in to the creek. Phoenix comes a crossed bob wire that she has to crawl under without being punctured. Along her trip a dog runs up and knocks old Phoenix