Eudora Welty: Unconditional Love

Human nature is the general traits and characteristics shared by all humans. Human nature drives the feeling of unconditional love, doing things unconditionally for those you love. This representation of human nature is shown clearly throughout the stories, The First Seven Years, by Bernard Malamud, and A Worn Path, by Eudora Welty. The authors of these two short stories show the human nature of how love influences people to perform unconditional actions out of love for the ones they care for most. In The First Seven Years, the author, Bernard Malamud, tells the story of a poor shoemaker, Feld, who makes his life goal for his daughter to get the education he was unable to. Malamud also tells the story of Feld’s assistant, Sobel, who works for seven years gaining little income as Feld’s apprentice just so he can be with the woman he loves. This unconditional love is shown as well in A Worn Path, which tells the story of old and worn-out Phoenix Jackson, who makes a long, dangerous trek through the natchez trace every day just to get medicine for her grandson who is all she has in her life. The strong, unconditional acts of love carried out by Feld, Sobel and Phoenix, shows the strong connection between love and the nature of mankind. Eudora

The main characters are influenced to great extents due to the ones they love; from risking their life to risking their own future, they show a clear sense of affection without any limitations. This unconditional love is represented among three people all living different lives in different time periods, showing that it is not just the trait of a single character or person in a certain time or place, but a trait that is the essence of human nature. The strong, unconditional acts of love carried out by Feld, Sobel and Phoenix, shows the strong connection between love and the nature of