A Worn Path

(Question 6) The child who wrote to the author questioned the grandson's death because Phoenix's grandson is still alive to her. She picks up medications for him because she is trying to keep him alive in her mind and in her reality. Phoenix tells a nurse "My little grandson, he sit up there in the house all wrapped up, waiting by himself." She believes that her grandson is still alive although the medicine she picks up is just a soothing medicine. A soothing medicine would not be necessary for that long. It seems that everyone else knows that her grandson is dead. Based on the way people regard her, she seems like the town crazy lady/everyone's grandma. Her grandson is alive in her mind, but that is the only place where he is alive.