Phoenix Jackson faces a number of obstacles in the valley as she travels to the doctor's office to procure the medicine needed by her grandson. Before she even reaches the bottom of the big hill that always seems to want her to stay, her skirts catch in a thorny bush, and it seems as though "before she could pull them free in one place they were caught in another."
Next, Phoenix comes to a creek,...
Phoenix Jackson faces a number of obstacles in the valley as she travels to the doctor's office to procure the medicine needed by her grandson. Before she even reaches the bottom of the big hill that always seems to want her to stay, her skirts catch in a thorny bush, and it seems as though "before she could pull them free in one place they were caught in another."
Next, Phoenix comes to a creek, and she must walk across a log to reach the other side. She lifts up her skirts, closes her eyes, and walks across. After sitting for a short rest, she has to make her way through a barbwire fence. Phoenix, an old woman, must get down on her hands and knees and crawl like a baby in order to avoid getting her clothes or skin snagged in the barbs. After this, she has to walk through the old cotton fields and a field of dead corn; there is no longer a path for this part, and she refers to it as a maze. As she makes her way from the valley, even more things happen to delay her, but she continues her plodding way forward, letting her feet remember the way.
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