"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" depicts a misunderstood old woman's last day on earth. The development of Granny's character and how it tied in her procrastination helped show that no one is ready to die. As Granny Weatherall's life literally "flashes" before her eyes, the importance of the title of the story becomes obvious. Granny Weatherall has been in some way deceived or disappointed in every love relationship of her life. Granny Weatherall is displayed as having good natured intentions inside, while yet her outward actions are often quite bitter.
One thing contributing to Granny's personality is her procrastination. At the beginning of the story, Granny says she will get things done "tomorrow." The author states that when Granny was sixty, she had felt very old and went around making farewell trips to her children and grandchildren, with a secret in mind: This is the very last of your mother, children! Toward the end of the story however, when Granny realizes she is dying, she begs God for more time to do the little tasks she had been putting off. This aspect of her character proved to be one of the themes of the story. No one is ready for death. .
Granny Weatherall's actions towards others appear cruel to the other characters that can't understand Granny's inner thoughts. Granny's actions towards other characters make her seem like a heartless old woman. She seems to be very court to the visiting doctor at the beginning. Her inner thoughts reveal that she wanted to make a kindly wave goodbye, but found herself too tired. Upon the doctor's return, Granny rudely inquires as to why he's returned after a few minutes. It's not Granny being ill-tempered, instead her inner thoughts reveal it to be in honest mistake. In this story, Granny recalls how her beau, jilted her at the altar. Although it is unclear to the reader what leads up o the wedding day abandonment, she was clearly haunted for sexy years as "she had prayed against remembering him and against losing her soul.
Another Jilting Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" is a story of a woman who lives a long life of eighty years. ... Granny is being jilted again sixty years later. ... She acts as though she got over George jilting her. ... Both have jilted Ellen Weatherall. ... Granny not remembered being jilted but she was jilted again. ...
Piedmont-Marton offers her interpretation of what she feels the theme of "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall". ... Now Granny is in her dying hours and she's forced come to terms with her jilting. ... But once again she was jilted when she asked for a sign and for the second time there was none. ... Marton concludes that in Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall", Granny fails to really get the connection between her death and her jilting by George. ... But the final irony for Granny Weatherall is that in death she finally is free of the memory of the day she was jilted. ...
"The Jilting of Granny Weatherall- Katherine Anne Porter lived during a rough time in the world, which included both of the world wars and the Great Depression. ... This is true of The Jilting of Granny Weatherall too. ... To her this was the equivalent of a jilting. ... From this idea of being jilted Granny's mind travels to when she was jilted by George at the alter in her youth. ... These are the two main flashbacks that Granny has they are both prominent in the fact that those she loved deeply in the past had jilted her and in the present she begins to feel the same is occur...
Granny Weatherall, the main character in Katherine Anne Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, is an 80-year-old elderly woman who is at the doorstep of death. ... The second irony of the story is the cause of Granny's greatest jilting, the realization that she had been stood up twice. ... In this situation, Christ is the bridegroom and He has not shown to be with her in death, this is the greatest jilting in Granny's mind. ... Even while thinking about the jilting she received from George, "it was Hapsy she really wanted- (1297). ... Granny experienced two jiltings in her l...
Hope of not dying without first taking care of all her businesses, specially of George (the man who jilted her) and fear of her children founding out that she was not the woman they thought she was. ... In a way, the day that Ellen was jilted was as if something died inside her because she kept that feeling all her life. I think that is the reason why she became aware that she should never aloud herself to feel pity for her being jilted. ... Of course, she could not stop the steam of life, she married with John and had children, but the true is she never got over George, and when John died sh...
In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," a short story by Katherine Anne Porter, the last thoughts, memories, and feelings of an elderly woman coming to terms with her inevitable death are retold. ... Her daughter Cornelia, past love George, husband John, and in the end even God had "jilted" her. ... Granny's strength came from the people she had felt jilted by. ... She felt as if Cornelia was treating her like a child, as well as a burden, and Cornelia's actions made Granny feel as if she too had jilted her. ...
In "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter, Granny Weatherall, jilted at the "alter"? ... Liked being jilted? ... Sitting around not getting over the jilt was not an option for Granny! ... The first thing that Granny did to get over the jilt was to get on with her life. ... Porter shows Granny not being happy with the jilt, but she also shows later in this short story that Granny had gotten over the jilt and led a successful and great life. ...
At first glance William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" and Katherine Ann Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" don't seem to have much in common, but further examination shows stong similarities in both the protagonist. ... George had jilted Granny, left her at the alter. ...
