My first impression of Old Phoenix was that she was the psycho, old lady, who no one understands and likely has upwards to 40 cats. She is hallucinating, talking to animals, talking to herself, and is making stuff up in her head. She avoids all of the advice from the hunter and turns down his help. She acts extremely strange when she actually gets into town too. After I read the quote above, I started to have more sympathy for her and somewhat respect what she was doing. She made that long journey into town many times to get medicine and occasionally buy something for her grandson. However, based on her conversation with the attendant, I think that her grandson is actually dead. Welty, the author, says that whether the boy is alive or not is irrelevant. The story and it's theme is about how Phoenix shows her love and care for her grandson. She feels that it is necessary that she does something for him. This serves an emotional purpose which shows how much she cares about him.
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