1) She went to buy a windmill for her son, who might be dead.
2) As she walks Phoenix Jackson has to climb a high hill, her dress catches on a thorn bush and must pass through a barbed wire fence.
3) She gets some medicine for her grandson but says she came to buy a paper windmill and the story ends before she goes and buys it.
4) She overcomes many obstacles but she continues indentured with purpose and wills herself to go on. This symbolizes her burning as a phoenix which nothing can stop. As she reaches the end of her journey and stops at the pharmacy she becomes unresponsive and forgets why she came. those her flame is extinguished and nothing is left. Then as she hears about her grandson she rises from her ashes and finds new purpose in her journey and she begins her again.
