The Sympathetic narrator in "The Whistle  and "A Worn Path  each speak of great sacrifice has been made by Phoenix Jackson taking a journey to get medicine for her grandson, so he can live. The deep despair of Jason and Sara Morton, in their attempt to save their farm that threatened not only their tomatoes, but their lives respectively as well. Phoenix Jackson, a determined woman, never gave up even in the hardest times. Jackson knew she had to complete the journey for her ill grandson. One of the first obstacles she runs into is the hill. Every time she comes to climb the hill, Phoenix says it seems like there are "chains about my feet" (Welty, "Path  1). This hill symbolizes the hard life that Phoenix has had to travel and sacrifice in order to get what she wants. Because she was very old and small and she walked slowly ("Path  1). After overcoming this first obstacle and on her trip down the hill, "a bush caught her dress" (Welty, "Path  2). She says that the thorns are "doing your appointed work" and that they "Never want to let folks pass- no sir" (Welty, "Path  2). This is a personal loss because it is her favorite dress that has been tore by what she thought was a pretty little green bush. However, after struggling against them, Phoenix "trembling all over" stands "free" (Welty, "Path  2). Phoenix was held up by the thorn bush and she sacrifices her own body from the pain she endures, but that won't stop her from keep on moving. Phoenix was becoming wore out and starting to imagine things because when she sat down she vision "A little boy brought her a plate with a slice of marble-cake on it she spoke to him.  "But when she went to take there was just her own hand in the air  (Welty, "Path  2). Another example, when she is traveling through the field, she thinks she sees a ghost, but after addressing the ghost, and not receiving an answer, she "shut her eyes, reached out her hand, and touched a sleev