Grandmother Vs Grandmother

Grandmother vs. Grandmother

When I read these two stories "A Worn Path and A Good Man is Hard to Find," I don't understand why the poor class grandmother name Phoenix Jackson is more sensitive and caring and show much more love for her grandson. On the other hand, a middle-class grandmother is more selfish, careless, and manipulates her grandson and family members to get what she wants.

A Worn Path provides examples of maternal love, nurturing, and healing. This is the story of an elderly black woman who makes a very long trip to town by foot to obtain medication for her grandson. The details of her trip, such as an encounter with a patronizing white man who was out hunting, and her humbling herself to ask a white woman to tie her shoes, show the lengths of a grandparent will go for the well-being of his/her grandchild. Phoenix Jackson; is described as a woman who represents the myth of the bird because she is elderly and near the end of her life. Phoenix can hardly walk and uses a cane made of an umbrella to aid her. Phoenix skin is described as old and wrinkly but she continues her journey along the worn path through the woods with an attitude I am making this trip to the city to get the medicine my grandson need and nothing is getting in my way.

A Good Man is Hard to Find provides examples of a grandmother morally superior to others by virtue her living like a "lady" and as she freely and frequently passes judgment on others. She claims that her conscience is a guiding force in her life, such as when she tells Bailey that her conscience wouldn't allow her to take the children in the same direction as the Misfit. She criticizes her grandchildren's mother for not traveling to a place that would allow the children to be broad, and she compares the mother's face to a cabbage. She chastises her son John Wesley for not acquiring more respect for his home state Georgia. She