In her story, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", Katherine Anne Porter" talks about many different characters. The story has minor characters that seem flat and undeveloped but one character, Granny Weatherall, has been fleshed out and fully developed. She is a very strong and independent woman, but at eighty years old, is unable to do some things for herself. The reader is able to empathize with Granny Weatherall's feelings as she is nearing the end of her life. .
As Granny is being cared by a doctor named Harry, she really just wanted to be left alone. "I'll call for you when I want you", Granny would tell the doctor. She felt the doctor was too young to take care of her and could not relate to what she was going through. She was also being cared for by her daughter, Cornelia, whom Granny felt was a nuisance. Granny was only resting to please Cornelia and keep her from worrying about her. She wanted to go back to her house and not be reminded that she was old. Granny wished she could go back to the good old days, when she did everything herself.
The author introduces the reader to Granny's independent side when she recalls the different chapters in her life that defined her as a person. She was once a woman that did everything herself to ensure that things got done. She always kept a clean and neat house and never ask anyone for help. "She had fenced in a hundred acres once, digging the post holes herself and wires with just a Negro boy to help." Clearly, Granny was a hard working woman and made the time to get things done every day. After her husband died, she had to play the role of both mother and father to her children and she successfully raised them on her own.
She worked long and hard in her days. "It had been a hard put, but not too much for her. "The speaker suggests that Granny could do anything no matter the situation she was in. She was a very strong and powerful woman who knew what she had to take care of, and that was everything around her.
