With a seemingly effortless style Eudora Welty demonstrates her gift of perception and imagery in the short story, "The Worn Path". Her ability to capture visual images and transform them into words on a piece of paper is nothing short of extraordinary. In this short story, Ms. Welty presents us with the gift of seeing, smelling and feeling all that her main character perceives and expresses. She does this in so few words that the reader, if not attentive, tends to regard the paragraphs as casually and offhandedly as they seem to have been ....