Question

When does the story a worn path" by Eudora Welty take place?

Answer 1

In Decdember, in the morning.  You can see this in the first line of the story.

Answer 2

The setting of Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" is the rural South in the 1930's.

A Worn Path. “A Worn Path” is a short story written by Eudora Welty. It was published in Atlantic Monthly magazine in 1941. "A worn path" depicts a journey by an elderly black woman named Phoenix Jackson, who must walk a long way into Natchez from her home in rural Mississippi to retrieve medicine for her grandson.